The Old Crown House and Isabel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1955. House. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Crown House and Isabel Cottage

WRENN ID
vacant-cobble-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1955
Type
House
Address
The Old Crown House and Isabel Cottage, Hambleden, RG9 6TG
OS grid reference
SU 775 901
Coordinates
51.6053, -0.88176
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Crown House and Isabel Cottage are two houses originally built in the 15th to 16th centuries, with alterations made in the 17th century and later. The exterior is constructed from flint and brick, featuring dentil eaves, while the front is roughcast and whitewashed. The building has an old tile roof and a central brick chimney with an off-set top. It is one storey high with an attic and consists of four bays, with the left bay being a 19th-century extension. The left bays have 20th-century paired barred wooden casements, while the third bay features a 20th-century bow window and a paired leaded casement above. All upper windows are set within dormer gables. A 20th-century board door is located between the left bays, topped with a flat hood supported by wooden brackets. An early 19th-century gabled extension projects in front of the right bay, made of whitewashed flint and brick with narrow dentil eaves, and includes 20th-century casements and a glazed door on the left side. There are additional extensions to the right. Inside, the right bay contains flanking cruck trusses, with the blades terminating above the collars, and heavy longitudinal floor joists. A stack with a lintel dated 1618 is inserted between the main posts of the central spere truss, which features shaped jowls on the spere posts and retains original purlins.

Local climate

The Old Crown House and Isabel 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 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
  • 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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