The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-merlon-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, 3, High Street, Clophill, MK45 4AB
- OS grid reference
- TL 083 377
- Coordinates
- 52.02784, -0.42284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century house located on the north side of Clophill High Street. It is built with a timber frame and has a colourwashed roughcast exterior over the timber. The roof is thatched, and the house has a two-room plan with attic space. The ground floor has three casement windows: two are of two lights each, and one is a single light. Two gabled dormers with two-light casement windows are located in the attic. A central, 20th-century thatched porch has been added. A red brick double ridge stack is present.
Local climate
The 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 2002
- 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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