Abel's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Abel's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- errant-ember-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Abel's Cottage, 43, High Street, Long Crendon, HP18 9AL
- OS grid reference
- SP 696 089
- Coordinates
- 51.7748, -0.99181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abel’s Cottage is a medieval building with elements from the 17th and 18th centuries, located on the west side of High Street, Long Crendon. Originally known as The Smithy, it is a timber-framed structure incorporating two cruck trusses. The front of the cottage is a mix of colour-washed stone and brick. It has a thatched roof, with a one-storey lean-to against the south gable, which has a hipped roof covered with old tiles. The cottage features one 2-light casement window in the lean-to, a 3-light segmental headed leaded casement window on the left side, and two small windows on the right. There are two small upper windows hidden under the thatch, the left-hand one being a dormer with a tiled apron. The interior reveals a well-preserved cruck truss in the centre, with its blades terminating above the collar. Part of a second cruck is visible near the party wall shared with number 45, which was rebuilt after a fire in 1962.
Local climate
Abel's Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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 — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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