College Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. A C17 Cottage.

College Cottage

WRENN ID
low-newel-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
College Cottage, 23, Worminghall Road, Ickford, HP18 9JB
OS grid reference
SP 648 075
Coordinates
51.7631, -1.06126
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

College Cottage is a medieval cruck hall house that was altered in the 17th century. It is timber framed with colourwashed plastered infill and has a thatched roof. The cottage is one storey high with dormers and consists of four bays, although there is a modern garage bay on the right side. The windows are irregular casements, and there are three doors, with the central door located in front of a 17th-century inserted stack made of old thin brick, creating a lobby entry plan type house. Inside, the hall has been floored over and features two cruck trusses.

Local climate

College 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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