Minstrel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1985. A Medieval House. 2 related planning applications.
Minstrel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- final-step-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1985
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Minstrel Cottage, High Street, Grendon Underwood, HP18 0SP
- OS grid reference
- SP 680 207
- Coordinates
- 51.88123, -1.01232
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Minstrel Cottage is a house that dates from the 15th to early 16th century and the 17th century. It has a timber frame with whitewashed brick infill and a rubble stone plinth. The roof is thatched and half-hipped to the right, over a weatherboarded outbuilding that is one bay wide. There is a rebuilt brick chimney with pilasters between the left bays. The taller 17th-century bay on the left is 1½ storeys high and features three-light leaded casements, with the ground floor window having a board hood and the upper window set in thatch. The two lower bays to the right are one storey with an attic and have paired leaded casements on the ground floor, along with a lobby entry to the left. There is a lean-to at the left end with a hipped thatch roof. The right bay of the house has flanking cruck trusses, and the centre bay includes a stop-chamfered spine beam.
Local climate
Minstrel 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 59% 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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