Vane Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. A C17 House. 2 related planning applications.
Vane Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lone-column-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Vane Cottage, Park Road North, Houghton Regis, LU5 5LD
- OS grid reference
- TL 023 240
- Coordinates
- 51.90602, -0.51292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vane Cottage is a 17th-century building that has been extensively altered. It features timber-framing with whitewashed brick nogging visible on the north gable end. The facade includes a brick ground floor and a mock timber-framed second floor, topped with a clay tile roof. There are four modern casement windows and a modern gabled porch. The cottage retains its original heavy central stack.
Local climate
Vane Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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