Thornton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1980. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Thornton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-minaret-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thornton Cottage, 27, Frogmore Lane, Long Crendon, HP18 9DZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 690 084
- Coordinates
- 51.77072, -1.00029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thornton Cottage is a 17th-century timber-frame cottage with brick infill and a stone ground floor. It has a steeply pitched plain tile roof with gabled ends. The cottage is two storeys high. A first-floor oriel window, likely from the 18th century, is splayed and has a few small windows with leaded panes. There is a plank door and a casement window on the ground floor. An internal brick stack is located at the gable end. Lantern Cottage abuts Thornton Cottage at a right angle, with Lantern Cottage's gable end running through the end of Thornton Cottage.
Local climate
Thornton Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- 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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