Nairne Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Nairne Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-dormer-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Nairne Cottage, Northend Common, Turville, RG9 6LJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 733 924
- Coordinates
- 51.62579, -0.94207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nairne Cottage is a house that dates back to the 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century, a refronting in the early 19th century, and further changes in the 20th century. The structure features a timber frame with brick infill on the first floor at the rear; the right gable is partially rendered and color-washed, while the rest is made of flint with brick dressings. It has a tiled roof and a large 17th-century external chimney on the right side, which has a lower section made of flint and brick, and an upper section of brick in English bond with two diagonal brick shafts. There is also a later brick chimney at the rear.
The house is two storeys tall and has a 20th-century five-bay window arrangement. The ground floor features paired wooden casements with segmental heads, while the first floor has wooden cross casements. The central door, which is from the 20th century, has a flat wooden hood above it. At the rear of the left bay, there is a brick lean-to that dates from the 19th to 20th century.
Inside, the cottage consists of three bays with timber framing in the cross walls. The truss between the left bays has well-crafted curved braces and likely was open over the center of the 16th-century hall. The truss between the right bays is closed. The right bay includes a stop-chamfered spine beam and a very heavy stop-chamfered fireplace lintel.
Local climate
Nairne 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
- 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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