Lynch Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1967. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Lynch Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-terrace-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lynch Farm Cottage, Kensworth, LU6 3QZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 044 180
- Coordinates
- 51.85171, -0.48487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lynch Farm Cottage is a 17th-century building located in Kensworth. It features a first floor that is timber-framed with whitewashed brick nogging, while the ground floor is constructed of whitewashed brick. The cottage has two storeys and is topped with an old clay tile roof. There are four modern casement windows and two 19th-century gabled door hoods. A heavy central brick chimney stack is a prominent feature of the structure.
Local climate
Lynch Farm Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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