Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1996. Cottage.
Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-gravel-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1996
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Keepers Cottage, 1, Chenies
- OS grid reference
- TQ 012 985
- Coordinates
- 51.67671, -0.53748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keeper's Cottage is an estate cottage built around 1850 for the Bedford estate. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring white brick dressings and a tiled roof with a channelled brick stack at the front and a paired stack at the rear. The building is L-shaped, consisting of one storey and attics. The front elevation facing the road has a gable to the left, which includes a square bay on the ground floor and two windows. The right side elevation has one window in the gable and an oriel window on the first floor. The left side has a recessed centre with a gabled porch that has a finial and pendant, leading to a plank door. There is a projecting bay to the right with a triple mullioned and transomed window, and a projecting wing to the left.
Local climate
Keepers 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
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