Tompion's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1966. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Tompion's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sunken-porch-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1966
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tompion's Cottage, 2, Caldecote Road, Northill, SG18 9EH
- OS grid reference
- TL 150 456
- Coordinates
- 52.09697, -0.32138
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tompion's Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that has been reworked in the 19th century. It features a timber-framed structure with colourwashed roughcast render and a thatched roof. The cottage has a three-room plan, with the western bay likely added later, and it is one storey with attics.
On the road-facing side, there is one two-light casement window, one round-headed casement window with pointed arched glazing bars, and one three-light casement window, all of which have leaded lights. The entrance is a plank door located under a 20th-century gabled porch. A double red brick ridge stack with diagonally set flues is present on the roof. The western gable includes a canted bay with leaded lights on the ground floor and a round-headed window similar to the front window in the attic.
The front of the cottage displays a 20th-century plaque that reads: "The birthplace of Thomas Tompion, clockmaker. Born 1639. Died 20th November 1713. Buried in Westminster Abbey."
Local climate
Tompion's 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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