College Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1975. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
College Cottages
- WRENN ID
- final-stair-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- College Cottages, Cranfield Road, Hulcote and Salford, MK17 8BD
- OS grid reference
- SP 935 392
- Coordinates
- 52.04343, -0.63785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
College Cottages is a house that was formerly a row of cottages, dating from around 1700. It features timber framed construction, with parts weatherboarded and parts having plaster infill. The roof is half-hipped and thatched. The building has a three-room plan and is two storeys high. On the ground floor, there is one three-light and three two-light casements with glazing bars. The first floor has one single-light and three two-light casements, also with glazing bars. A part-glazed door aligns with a red brick double ridge stack, and there is a blocked doorway to the right. The left end has a red brick integral stack, and there is a single-storey brick and thatch addition to the left gable end.
Local climate
College Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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