Cob's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1986. House. 4 related planning applications.

Cob's Cottage

WRENN ID
stubborn-pavement-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 January 1986
Type
House
Address
Cob's Cottage, Hambleden, RG9 6TG
OS grid reference
SU 775 902
Coordinates
51.60563, -0.88167
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cob's Cottage is a 17th-century house with a timber frame and whitewashed render infill on the front, while the right gable features whitewashed brick infill. The left gable is covered in shingles, and the roof is made of old tiles. There is an external 17th-century brick chimney on the right, which has a moulded corbel, pilaster, offsets, and moulding at the base of the shaft, along with a later brick chimney in the center. The cottage has two storeys and two bays. The ground floor includes canted bay windows with gables, featuring late 19th-century four-light wooden casements. The upper storey has similar oriels with gables that break through the eaves, each supported by a single shaped wooden bracket from the 17th century. On the ground floor left, there is a single barred wooden window, and the central entrance has an old board door with a leaded board hood. A Phoenix fire insurance plaque is also present.

Local climate

Cob's 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 83% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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