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

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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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