Bretigny Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
Bretigny Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-moulding-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bretigny Cottage, Cranfield Road, Moulsoe, MK16 0HB
- OS grid reference
- SP 910 419
- Coordinates
- 52.06859, -0.67303
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bretigny Cottage is a house dating from the 16th to 17th centuries, with later additions. The house is timber-framed with white-painted brick infill, and has a tiled roof, with thatch to the south wing. It comprises several wings. The central part is two storeys and an attic, with a door and modern casement windows to the front elevation, and two-light casements to each floor in the north gable. A single-storey and attic north wing has a half-hipped roof and modern casements. A two-storey west wing is built of colourwashed brick with one three-light casement window to each floor, each with a segmental arched head. A long, single-storey and attic south wing is timber-framed and thatched, with two leaded windows and two doors; it formerly served as a village post office and store. The east front is irregular, featuring leaded casement windows.
Local climate
Bretigny 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 88% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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 2000
- 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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