Beech Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. House.
Beech Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-plinth-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beech Cottage, 1 and 2, Preston Bissett
- OS grid reference
- SP 662 280
- Coordinates
- 51.94692, -1.03695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech Cottage is a house that has been divided into two homes. It dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century and features a timber frame covered with colourwashed render and roughcast, topped with an old tile roof. The building has two external chimney stacks with rubble stone bases and brick above, and it is designed in a T-plan layout.
The west front has two bays of the northern wing on the left and a projecting gabled cross wing on the right. The northern wing includes a 20th-century three-light wooden casement window on the lower left, a panelled door, and a single leaded casement window to the right. The jettied first floor features 19th-century wooden casements, with a four-light window to the left and a three-light window to the right. The cross wing has 20th-century metal casements and a 20th-century single-storey brick extension to the right.
Inside, there is panelling dated 1604, which includes a patterned pilaster and fluted frieze.
Local climate
Beech 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 59% 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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