Coachman's Cottage and attached Stables, Coach Houses and Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 2012. Cottage, stable, outbuilding.
Coachman's Cottage and attached Stables, Coach Houses and Outbuildings
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-garret-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 2012
- Type
- Cottage, stable, outbuilding
- Address
- Coachman's Cottage and attached Stables, Coach Houses and Outbuildings, Wrest Park, Silsoe
- OS grid reference
- TL 088 354
- Coordinates
- 52.00679, -0.416
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coachman's Cottage and its attached stables, coach houses, and outbuildings are built from cream-colored brick and feature slate roofs. The cottage is located at the south-west corner of the yard, extending westward beyond the garden wall. It is a rectangular, two-storey structure with a modern porch. The stables and outbuildings are single-storey and line the north and south sides of the yard, which is accessed through wide full-height gates located just north of the cottage.
The cottage's most notable feature is the Dutch gable on the north elevation. Below this gable, there is a single window on the first floor. The other three sides of the cottage are plain and each has one window with flat arches, along with doors on the south and east sides. All windows have been replaced with late 20th-century versions. A door on the south side of the cottage leads to a small service yard that contains domestic outbuildings and can also be accessed from the kitchen door. Attached to the cottage, immediately south of the front door, is a single-storey range that includes stables and three coach houses with double doors. The stable door and a large window with wooden bars feature flat arches made of red brick. On the opposite side of the yard, the north range has four windows and a door facing the yard, with some alterations at the west end.
Inside, the cottage maintains its original layout of two rooms on each floor. The interior is quite plain, with some original features replaced during modernisation. The living room has a 20th-century tiled fireplace, although the fireplace surround remains in the north first-floor bedroom. The first-floor rooms still have their original plain four-panelled doors. A narrow enclosed staircase leads from the kitchen to a small landing between the bedrooms.
Local climate
Coachman's Cottage and attached Stables, Coach Houses and Outbuildings 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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- Garden House and low brick garden wall
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- Walled Garden immediately West of Wrest Park House, including Linking Screen Wall
- Orangery, Steps and Four Cherub Statues on Pedestals
- Mermaid Basin at west side of South Parterre
- Italian Garden Structures including Statue of Ceres, Curb Stones, Entrance Piers, Gatepiers and Gates
- The Hawking Party Statue 150m south of The Orangery (formerly listed as Equestrian Statue Group)
- 2 Roman baths immediately in front of the terrace of Wrest Park House (to East and West)
- Four Statuary Groups in the South Parterre (also known as the French Garden) south of Wrest House, depicting Aeneas and Anchises, the Abduction of Helen of Troy, Venus and Adonis and Meleager and Atalanta
- Railings, gates, piers and urns to south side of South Parterre (also known as the French Garden)