Ashridge Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1980. House. 1 related planning application.

Ashridge Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
deep-rubblework-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1980
Type
House
Address
Ashridge Farm Cottage, Leyhill Common, Latimer and Ley Hill, HP5 1UP
OS grid reference
SP 994 016
Coordinates
51.7044, -0.56231
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 16th-century timber-framed house, originally consisting of two bays and one and a half storeys. A more modern bay has been added to the left. The ground floor is brick-faced, whilst the upper floor retains exposed timber framing, filled in with brick and colourwashed. The roof is covered with old tiles. Modern casement windows have been installed, and the first floor windows are gabled. A 17th-century chimney stack is located at the rear of the property. A hipped-roof extension, dating to around 1980, has been added to the left side, featuring two dormers at the rear. The original right-hand bay was formerly open to the roof, displaying smoke-blackened roof timbers and curved purlin braces.

Inside, the house features chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, and tension braces between posts and bressummers.

Local climate

Ashridge Farm 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 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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