Home Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. Cottage.
Home Cottage
- WRENN ID
- small-wicket-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Home Cottage, Wexham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 002 807
- Coordinates
- 51.51657, -0.55648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Cottage is a 17th-century building that has been restored, with a 20th-century wing added. It features a timber-framed structure with red brick nogging and an old tile roof. The cottage is two storeys high and has two 2-light metal casements on both the ground and first floors. There is a central door topped by a small timber gabled hood supported by brackets. To the right, there is a one-storey lean-to addition.
Local climate
Home 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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