Red Cow Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Red Cow Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- weathered-spindle-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Red Cow Farm Cottage, Bedford Road, Bidwell, Houghton Regis, LU5 6JP
- OS grid reference
- TL 013 246
- Coordinates
- 51.9115, -0.52819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Red Cow Farm Cottage is a 17th-century timber-framed building with whitewashed brick nogging. It was formerly known as Red Cow Farmhouse. The cottage has an old clay tile roof and two storeys, featuring five modern casement windows. A 19th-century bracketed gabled doorhood sits above the entrance, and a central chimney stack is constructed of brick.
Local climate
Red Cow Farm Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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.
More on this building
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2022
- 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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