Townsend Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1984. Cottage.

Townsend Cottages

WRENN ID
quiet-pillar-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 February 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Townsend Cottages, 1-4, Main Street, Middle Claydon
OS grid reference
SP 721 258
Coordinates
51.92658, -0.9526
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Townsend Cottages is a row of cottages dating from the 18th century, with alterations and extensions made in the late 19th century. The older block, consisting of three bays on the right, is constructed of chequer brick and features a half-hipped tiled roof with two intermediate brick stacks, each having four square shafts set diagonally. The cottages are two storeys high with an attic. The ground floor has three-light barred wooden casements with cut brick heads, while the first floor has three-light leaded casements. There are three doors, one of which is blocked, all with similar brick heads. To the left, the late 19th-century cottage is made of red and white brick, adorned with blue header patterns on the gable, and has a tiled roof. This cottage is one and a half storeys high, consists of one bay, and is gabled to the road. It features barred wooden casements with brick Tudor hoodmoulds and has a single-storey bay set back to the left.

Local climate

Townsend Cottages 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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