Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-stronghold-finch
- 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
- Orchard Cottage, 4, Bedford Road, Aspley Guise, MK17 8DJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 942 359
- Coordinates
- 52.01388, -0.62757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century, with alterations around 1800. The house has a timber-framed structure, although the road-facing elevation was rebuilt using mottled red, grey, and yellow brick. The roof is hipped and tiled. It is arranged as a two-storeyed L-plan.
The road elevation features two casement windows on the ground floor, one with three lights and one with two. Above, there is a single three-light casement window and one blind window. All windows have glazing bars, and the ground floor windows are set beneath gauged brick flat arches. The western elevation has a canted bay window on the left, alongside three three-light casement windows with glazing bars. The first floor of the west elevation has three similar three-light casement windows. A blocked doorway sits between two windows on the right-hand side. A central doorway, aligned with a red brick ridge stack, has a six-panel door, the upper pair of panels glazed. Flat cornice hoods are supported on cut brackets above the windows.
Local climate
Orchard 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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