How Cottage St Christopher is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. A C17 Cottage.
How Cottage St Christopher
- WRENN ID
- riven-transept-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- C17
- Address
- How Cottage St Christopher, the Square, Aspley Guise
- OS grid reference
- SP 942 359
- Coordinates
- 52.01405, -0.62864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
How Cottage and St Christopher are a pair of cottages dating from the 17th century, with later alterations. The front of the cottages features colourwashed cement render, while the sides are constructed of red brick, although the structure likely includes some timber framing. The cottages have a 20th-century tiled roof and are two stories high with a five-window facade. All the windows are casements with diamond leading, mostly consisting of three lights. There are 20th-century glazed doors located under gabled open porches, one at the left-hand gable end and one on the right side of the front elevation. A red brick multiple ridge stack is present, along with red brick external stacks at both gable ends.
Local climate
How Cottage St Christopher 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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