Beech Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. A C17 House. 3 related planning applications.
Beech Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-hammer-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beech Cottage, Askett Lane, Princes Risborough, HP27 9LU
- OS grid reference
- SP 815 049
- Coordinates
- 51.73774, -0.82099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech Cottage is a small house dating from the 17th century. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick, flint, and plaster infill, along with a rendered plinth. The roof is thatched with a half-hipped design, and there are brick chimneys flanking the full bays. The building has two storeys and two and a half bays, with irregular wooden casements on the south side, all fitted with glazing bars. There are two 20th-century board doors on the north side and another door to the left on the south side. At the far end, there is a whitewashed render extension with a lean-to roof. Inside, the cottage includes chamfered spine beams and diagonal braces.
Local climate
Beech 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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