Blackhafields Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1985. Cottage.
Blackhafields Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-thatch-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Blackhafields Cottage, Woburn Road, Millbrook
- OS grid reference
- TL 000 377
- Coordinates
- 52.02949, -0.54273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blackhafields Cottage is a Grade II listed cottage located on Woburn Road in Millbrook, built in 1843 as part of the Bedford Estate. The cottage is constructed of red brick and features a 20th-century tiled roof. It has a two-room plan and is one storey high with attics.
On the ground floor, there are two three-light windows, while the attic contains one two-light window flanked by two single lights. All windows are cast iron lattice casements, and the central windows on both the ground floor and attic have moulded brick labels. The attic windows are topped with three gablets, with the central gablet being larger and displaying a Bedford Estate plaque at its apex.
The cottage features a central gabled brick porch with a moulded brick square-headed arch and a cogged brick eaves cornice. At the right-hand end, there is a chimney stack with a pair of chamfered shafts linked by a moulded cornice. The left-hand gable end has a canted bay window on the ground floor. Additionally, there is a single-storeyed outbuilding that projects from the rear elevation.
Local climate
Blackhafields Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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