Wavendon Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Wavendon Cottage
- WRENN ID
- proud-dormer-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes Central MP: Emily Darlington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wavendon Cottage, 4, Cross End Road, MK17 8AQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 917 374
- Coordinates
- 52.02779, -0.66433
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wavendon Cottage is an 18th-century brick cottage with a thatched roof and a central chimney. It is one storey and has an attic. The east front has five irregular bays. Three dormers rise under the thatch, featuring modern casement windows. A tiled pentice porch shelters the central door. To the left are two segmental-headed three-light casement windows, and to the right are two casement windows and a modern glazed door. A modern wing extends at right angles to the right.
Local climate
Wavendon 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 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 — 5 transactions since 2017
- 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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