Valentine Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Valentine Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-threshold-sienna
- 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
- Valentine Cottage, Bedford Road, Aspley Guise, MK17 8DJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 946 360
- Coordinates
- 52.01454, -0.62286
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Valentine Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with later alterations. It is a timber-framed building, with some parts featuring colourwashed brick infill and others colourwashed render and applied timber framing. The roof is thatched. The house originally comprised three rooms, with a one-storey main section and attics. A later block projects to the rear. The front elevation has single-storey lean-to additions to the outer bays. A variety of casement windows are present, many retaining leaded lights. There are three eyebrow dormers. A plank door is located in the central bay. A substantial red brick ridge stack is situated on the left-hand side, and an integral brick stack is present on the right-hand gable end.
Local climate
Valentine 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 — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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