Magpie Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Magpie Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-column-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Magpie Cottage, 6, Lower Road, Stoke Mandeville, HP22 5XB
- OS grid reference
- SP 830 107
- Coordinates
- 51.78918, -0.79692
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Magpie Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that has been altered and restored in the 20th century. It is timber framed with white painted brick infill, some laid in a herringbone pattern. The roof is thatched, half-hipped at the west end and sloping down towards the east end. The south front has two dormers in the thatched roof and two doors, as well as irregular wooden casement windows on the ground floor. The building is documented in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Volume I, page 283, and referenced in Mons.14-18.
Local climate
Magpie Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
- 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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