Cottage of Content is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. Cottage.
Cottage of Content
- WRENN ID
- over-facade-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cottage of Content, 5, Main Street, Weston Turville
- OS grid reference
- SP 853 108
- Coordinates
- 51.78956, -0.76453
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cottage of Content is a 17th-century building that has been altered. It features a timber frame with white painted brick and plaster infill, topped with a thatched roof that has half hipped gables. The cottage has two brick chimneys and two eaves dormers. It is one storey high with an attic, and the central door is sheltered by a small thatched canopy. The windows are modern casements.
Local climate
Cottage of Content 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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