Old Woodstock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. House.
Old Woodstock Cottage
- WRENN ID
- weathered-attic-cobweb
- 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
- Old Woodstock Cottage, 39, High Street, Silsoe
- OS grid reference
- TL 081 356
- Coordinates
- 52.00907, -0.42501
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Woodstock Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century. It features a timber framed construction with colourwashed roughcast render and a clay tile roof. The building has a two-room plan and stands two storeys high with attics. Notably, it has a jettied first floor at the north gable end. There are two three-light casements with leaded lights on each floor. The entrance is an off-centre six-panel door, which is sheltered by a flat hood supported on cut brackets. A red brick multiple ridge stack is present on the roof.
Local climate
Old Woodstock 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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