27, School Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Cottage.

27, School Lane

WRENN ID
sombre-zinc-sienna
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
27, School Lane, Southill
OS grid reference
TL 149 420
Coordinates
52.06465, -0.32414
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 27 on School Lane is a cottage from the Southill Estate, marked with a plaque that reads "S W 1796." The building features colourwashed roughcast over a timber frame and has a clay tile roof. It has a two-room layout, is one storey high with attics, and includes a lean-to addition on the north gable end. The original section of the cottage has two ground floor two-light casement windows and a central box dormer with another two-light casement. There is a central door beneath a gabled hood supported by cut brackets, and a red brick integral stack is located on the south gable end.

Local climate

27, School Lane 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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