Granary at Lakeside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. A C18 Granary.

Granary at Lakeside Cottage

WRENN ID
scarred-plaster-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 March 1985
Type
Granary
Address
Granary at Lakeside Cottage, Old Warden
OS grid reference
TL 145 445
Coordinates
52.08779, -0.32932
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The granary at Lakeside Cottage is an 18th-century timber-framed structure featuring red brick infill. It stands on red brick staddles with stone capping and has a hipped clay tile roof. This small square building has a plank door on the south elevation, which is accessed by a flight of brick steps. The north elevation includes a small casement window.

Local climate

Granary at Lakeside Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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