456 and 458, Simpson Road is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

456 and 458, Simpson Road

WRENN ID
peeling-attic-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Milton Keynes
Constituency
Milton Keynes Central MP: Emily Darlington (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
456 and 458, Simpson Road, Simpson and Ashland, MK6 3AD
OS grid reference
SP 881 362
Coordinates
52.01795, -0.71619
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

This is a pair of 17th-century half-timbered cottages located on Simpson Road. They are one storey high with attics, and have thatched roofs. The timber frames show tie beams, studding, and beaming in the gable ends. Number 456 has a 19th-century buff brick front with red brick dressings, while number 458 has an 18th-century diapered brick front. Each cottage features a single, small, eyebrowed attic casement window and two ground-floor wood casement windows, with plain doors. Internally, some beams are exposed, particularly in number 456, where parts of the roof trusses are visible. Numbers 456 and 458 are historically grouped with numbers 203 and 205 on the opposite side of the road.

Local climate

456 and 458, Simpson Road 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 82% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 — 9 transactions since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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