Paxtons Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Paxtons Cottage
- WRENN ID
- strange-clay-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Paxtons Cottage, Upper Icknield Way, Princes Risborough, HP27 0LL
- OS grid reference
- SP 819 042
- Coordinates
- 51.73143, -0.81492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Paxtons Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick infill, while the ground floor and the gable of the right bay have been rebuilt in whitewashed brick. The cottage has a thatched roof with flanking brick chimneys; the left chimney is external and has a small lean-to, likely an oven, at the front. The building is two storeys high with two main bays. It has leaded casements that are irregular on the ground floor, and the upper floor has two paired casements on the right and two three-light casements on the left. There is a 20th-century door to the right of the left bay and a 20th-century single-storey extension to the right, which is mostly glazed and has a tiled roof. Additionally, there is a lean-to at the rear.
Local climate
Paxtons 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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