Purbeck Cottage and Windsor Cottage (The 2 Together Comprising the Former Laundry) is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. Cottage.

Purbeck Cottage and Windsor Cottage (The 2 Together Comprising the Former Laundry)

WRENN ID
tangled-grate-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Purbeck Cottage and Windsor Cottage (The 2 Together Comprising the Former Laundry), Cliveden Road, Taplow
OS grid reference
SU 913 841
Coordinates
51.549, -0.68385
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Purbeck Cottage and Windsor Cottage, dating from around 1860 and likely designed by George Devey, were originally a laundry and are now two cottages. The buildings are partly one storey and partly two storeys tall. They feature a mix of cement render, some areas treated as rubble stone, some finished to resemble ashlar, and others imitating timber. The roof is tiled.

On the east end, to the left, there are two casement windows beneath a tiled roof, above which is a large gable end with a sun motif. To the right, on the ground floor, there is a tripartite casement window and door beneath an overhanging tiled roof, along with a circular window. The first floor has a gabled half dormer. On the south side, there is the entrance to Purbeck Cottage and five casement windows with top lights and glazing bars.

Local climate

Purbeck Cottage and Windsor Cottage (The 2 Together Comprising the Former Laundry) 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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