Cookshall Farmhouse, Cookshall Cottage and the Flat is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1986. Farmhouse, cottage, flat. 1 related planning application.
Cookshall Farmhouse, Cookshall Cottage and the Flat
- WRENN ID
- salt-ember-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage, flat
- Address
- Cookshall Farmhouse, Cookshall Cottage and the Flat, Cookshall Lane, Downley, HP12 4AP
- OS grid reference
- SU 841 961
- Coordinates
- 51.65771, -0.78431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cookshall Farmhouse, Cookshall Cottage, and The Flat comprise a house, cottage, and flat located in West Wycombe Rural. The farmhouse dates from the mid to late 18th century, possibly incorporating an earlier core, and features an altered 16th and 17th-century range at the rear. The house is constructed of flint with narrow brick dressings, topped with an old tile roof and a narrow brick chimney situated between the left bays. It has two storeys and three bays, with 20th-century three-light barred wooden casements, and ground floor windows that have chequered segmental heads. The left bay contains a six-panelled top-lit door framed by a 20th-century architrave and topped with a wooden cornice hood. The left gable features leaded casements and a fire insurance plaque.
Attached to the rear left corner is a range that includes the cottage and flat. This structure has three bays, featuring timber framing with brick infill. The center bay displays heavy framing and arch braces, while the right bay is a 17th-century addition. The ground floor and rear have been rebuilt in brick and flint, with two later brick and flint bays to the left. The roof is old tile, hipped to the left, with a rebuilt brick chimney to the right. This range has one storey and an attic, comprising five bays with irregular barred wooden casements, including attic windows in gabled eaves-line dormers and a horizontal sliding sash in the right bay. A 20th-century brick lobby is located to the right, with a 20th-century door in the second bay, and stable and hayloft doors to the left. There is a timber-framed staircase projection at the rear angle between the house and the cottage. The interior of the cottage features timber-framed cross walls, curved wind-braces in the center bay, a stop-chamfered spine beam in the right bay, and a winder stair.
Local climate
Cookshall Farmhouse, Cookshall Cottage and the Flat 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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