Steps Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1972. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Steps Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-flue-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Steps Cottage, 6, Brewery Lane, Ampthill, MK45 2NE
- OS grid reference
- TL 033 382
- Coordinates
- 52.03274, -0.4947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Steps Cottage is a 18th-century building that has been altered over time. The front is finished in pebble dash, while the back and side elevations are partly timber-framed with red brick nogging. It features an old tiled roof and stands two storeys high with an attic, including two gabled casement dormers. The cottage has three casement windows, with leaded glass on the first floor and glazing bars on the ground floor, each adorned with small wooden hoods. The entrance is highlighted by a 19th-century gabled wooden door surround. Steps Cottage, along with Nos 1 to 3, forms a group.
Local climate
Steps Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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