Elm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Elm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-bronze-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Elm Cottage, 4, High Street, Great Missenden, HP16 9AB
- OS grid reference
- SP 892 015
- Coordinates
- 51.70548, -0.7093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elm Cottage is a 17th-century building that was refronted in the 18th century. It features colourwashed brick and a hipped old tile roof. The side elevations are timber-framed with brick nogging. The cottage has two storeys, with a central six-panel door flanked by three-light leaded casements, all of which have segmental brick arches above them. On the first floor, there are two three-light leaded casements. To the right, there is a six-pane wide sash window on the ground floor and a two-light casement on the first floor. The side elevation has irregular windows.
Local climate
Elm Cottage 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 2009
- 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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