Swiss Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1970. House.
Swiss Cottage
- WRENN ID
- other-entrance-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Swiss Cottage, 11 and 12, High Street, Old Warden
- OS grid reference
- TL 138 440
- Coordinates
- 52.08292, -0.33931
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swiss Cottage is a house that was originally a pair of cottages from the Shuttleworth Estate, built in the early 19th century in a picturesque style. The building is made of brick and has a colourwashed roughcast render. It features a hipped roof covered with fishscale tiles, adorned with terracotta decorative ridge cresting and finials. The structure is U-shaped, consisting of one storey and attics, with side wings that have semi-hexagonal ends. There are three round-headed dormers: one in the center and one in each side wing. The ground floor has three windows, one in the center and one in each side wing, all of which are 2-light casements with diamond leading. Each side wing has a six-panel door. The ends of the building have double integral stacks topped with decorative pots.
Local climate
Swiss 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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