Bockmer End Cottages the Hatchet is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Bockmer End Cottages the Hatchet
- WRENN ID
- far-kitchen-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bockmer End Cottages the Hatchet, 5, Medmenham, SL7 2HL
- OS grid reference
- SU 810 863
- Coordinates
- 51.57029, -0.83151
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A house dating from the 17th to early 18th century, with a 20th-century extension to the rear. The house is timber-framed with brick infill, featuring a rebuilt brick plinth and an old tile roof. It is one storey high with an attic, originally comprising two bays. The road-facing wall is blank, with a rebuilt external brick chimney and a blocked original three-light window on the right-hand side. The gable ends have 20th-century casement windows; a two-light window is present in the left gable, and a three-light window in the right gable. A 20th-century gabled brick porch with a door is located on the right gable. A 20th-century brick wing extends to the rear, with a tiled roof and similar casement windows, with upper windows set in gabled dormers.
Local climate
Bockmer End Cottages the Hatchet 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 4 transactions since 1997
- 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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