Well Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Well Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-screen-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Well Cottage, Ivinghoe, LU7 9DP
- OS grid reference
- SP 954 179
- Coordinates
- 51.85219, -0.61601
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well Cottage is a 17th-century cottage built with a timber frame and brick infill. It features an old tile roof that is half-hipped to the left and has a small 19th-century brick chimney on the right. The cottage is two storeys high and consists of one bay. The northwest front has 20th-century paired barred wooden casements, with two on the ground floor and one above, along with a boarded door to the left. The ground floor openings are topped with minimal board hoods. The left gable has two paired casements with diamond leading on the first floor, a single light, and a lean-to garage. There is also an outbuilding attached to the right.
Local climate
Well 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- 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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