Straw Plait is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1961. A C17 Cottage.
Straw Plait
- WRENN ID
- small-terrace-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1961
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Straw Plait, 27 and 29, Church Road, Harlington
- OS grid reference
- TL 037 305
- Coordinates
- 51.96418, -0.49111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Straw Plait is a pair of cottages that were originally one property, dating from the late 17th century and reworked in the 18th century. The structure is timber framed, with the frame exposed at the gable ends and a red brick skin in header bond on the front elevation. It has a clay tile roof and a four-room plan across two storeys. Each floor features four three-light casement windows, mostly with leaded glass, and the ground floor windows are set under cambered heads. There are two plank doors, each with flat cut-bracketed hoods above them. A red brick multiple ridge stack is present, along with a red brick external stack on the left-hand gable end.
Local climate
Straw Plait 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 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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