Grape Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. House.
Grape Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-steeple-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Grape Cottage, Sprats Lane, Kensworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 038 179
- Coordinates
- 51.8505, -0.49342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grape Cottage is a 17th-century building that has been altered over time. It stands two storeys tall and features an old clay tile roof with a central brick stack. The front elevation is covered in colourwashed roughcast, and there is a modern porch and windows. The sides and rear of the cottage have a timber frame with colourwashed brick infill.
Local climate
Grape 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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