Vine Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1975. House.

Vine Cottage

WRENN ID
watchful-steeple-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1975
Type
House
Address
Vine Cottage, 1, Mill Lane, Flitton and Greenfield
OS grid reference
TL 053 349
Coordinates
52.00279, -0.46658
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Vine Cottage is a house dating from the 18th century, located on Mill Lane in Greenfield, Flitton. The building features colourwashed roughcast over a timber frame and has a thatched roof. It has a three-room layout and is one storey high with attics. On the ground floor, there are three casement windows: two with three lights and one with two lights, the latter featuring glazing bars. In the attic, there is an eyebrow dormer with a two-light casement window. The entrance includes a plank door with a gabled bracketed hood on the right-hand bay. Additionally, there is one colourwashed brick ridge stack and one colourwashed brick external stack on the left-hand gable end.

Local climate

Vine 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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