Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. Cottage.
Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-entrance-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Cottage, High Street, Taplow, SL6 0EX
- OS grid reference
- SU 911 823
- Coordinates
- 51.53245, -0.68744
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Cottage is a 17th century building featuring a timber-framed structure with colourwashed brick nogging and an old tile roof. It has one storey and an attic, with two gabled dormers that include bargeboards. The ground floor has one three-light casement window and one two-light casement window. On the right side, there is a boarded door.
Local climate
Old 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1996
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- 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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