Wayside and Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 2001. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Wayside and Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-chalk-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 2001
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wayside and Orchard Cottage, Seer Green Lane Road, Chalfont St. Giles, HP9 2ST
- OS grid reference
- SU 974 913
- Coordinates
- 51.61289, -0.59374
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wayside and Orchard Cottage is a pair of cottages that were formerly used as workers' housing, built between 1920 and 1923. Designed by Fred Rowntree for the Quaker Trust, the cottages feature brick walls, tile roofs, and wood windows and doors.
The cottages are attached in one range, with each having a slightly projecting bay at the center that contains entrance doors. They have a pitched tile roof over a two-storey structure, with a central chimney at the ridge. Each cottage has a slightly projecting bay with a lower hipped roof and a central window on the first floor. A continuous flat string course made of vertically placed brick headers runs along the facade, and the cottages have wood multi-paned windows.
The interior has not been inspected but is believed to be plain, reflecting their original use as workers' cottages.
Located just off the 1919 Village Green in the village of Jordans, these cottages are part of a planned community designed for Quakers, which began construction in 1919 based on Fred Rowntree's designs from 1916. This terrace contributes to the group value of the historically significant Jordans village and is recognized for its mostly unaltered and well-designed workers' housing.
Local climate
Wayside and Orchard Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 2 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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