North Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1975. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
North Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-alcove-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes Central MP: Emily Darlington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- North Cottage, the Green, Old Woughton, MK6 3BE
- OS grid reference
- SP 872 375
- Coordinates
- 52.02994, -0.72893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th to 18th century, which has been altered. It is constructed of brick, with some areas roughcast and painted, and features an old tile roof that is half hipped at the south end, along with a central chimney. The building is two storeys high with an attic. The first floor has a string course that is broken above the central door, which has a wooden lintel. There are two upper three-light casement windows, and to the right of the ground floor, there is a similar segmental-headed window. The south gable has two segmental-headed two-light casement windows on the ground floor, one two-light casement window to the left on the first floor, and one in the attic. The west roofslope includes a central dormer with a swept roof.
Local climate
North 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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