Lakeside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Lakeside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- over-doorway-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lakeside Cottage, Old Warden, SG18 9EJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 145 445
- Coordinates
- 52.08774, -0.3292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lakeside Cottage is a cottage located on the Shuttleworth estate, dating from the 18th century, with a 19th-century addition and alterations. It features a timber-framed construction with colourwashed roughcast render on the exterior and a mottled red brick addition to the north. The roofs are covered with clay tiles. The cottage has a two-room plan, is one storey high with attics, and has a south elevation that includes a central part-glazed door flanked by two-light casement windows. There are three dormer windows, each with two-light casements, and all openings have pointed-arched heads, with the dormer gables also following this shape. The right-hand room has a red brick integral stack, while the left-hand room has a rebuilt red brick external stack on the rear wall. The rear block features a variety of casement windows, some of which are from the 20th century.
Local climate
Lakeside 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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