Park Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. A C18 House.
Park Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gilded-tracery-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Park Cottage, Bedford Road, Aspley Guise, MK17 8DJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 946 360
- Coordinates
- 52.01455, -0.62267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park Cottage is a house dating from the 18th century, with later alterations. It features a timber-framed construction, some of which has been replaced, with colourwashed brick and render infill. The roof is thatched. The building has a three-bay plan, is one storey high with attics, and has its gable end facing the road. It includes two and three-light casement windows with leaded lights. There is a plank door on the west elevation situated between the two right-hand bays. A substantial red brick ridge stack is located between the two left-hand bays.
Local climate
Park Cottage 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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