Five Penny Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1961. House. 2 related planning applications.
Five Penny Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-lantern-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Five Penny Cottage, 137, High Road, Shillington, SG5 3LU
- OS grid reference
- TL 122 330
- Coordinates
- 51.985, -0.36683
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Five Penny Cottage is a house that has been divided into two properties. It dates from the 17th century and was probably extended in the 18th century. The structure is timber framed and is finished with colourwashed roughcast render. It has clay tile roofs and is arranged in a T-plan, extending westwards towards the road. The building has two storeys and features 20th-century casement windows throughout, all with glazing bars. There are 20th-century gabled porches, one on the north elevation and one on the south elevation. The main block includes a red brick double ridge stack and a red brick external stack at the eastern end of the south elevation. The eastern cross-wing has a substantial red brick external stack on the south gable. There is also a single-storeyed outbuilding to the south of the cross-wing, which has been converted for domestic use.
Local climate
Five Penny 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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