Appletree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. House.
Appletree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-string-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Appletree Cottage, 19, Sand Lane, Northill
- OS grid reference
- TL 150 463
- Coordinates
- 52.10393, -0.3218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Appletree Cottage is an 18th-century house with a timber-framed structure, featuring colourwashed roughcast render and some areas of colourwashed brick casing. The cottage has a thatched roof and is designed with a three-room plan, comprising one storey and attics. On the north elevation, there are two 2-light casement windows and an off-centre 20th-century glazed porch with a thatched hood. The road gable end has one 2-light casement window on each floor. To the south, there is a substantial 20th-century addition that forms an L-plan.
Local climate
Appletree Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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