Honesty Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1983. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Honesty Cottage
- WRENN ID
- night-steel-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Honesty Cottage, Main Street, Water Stratford, MK18 5DU
- OS grid reference
- SP 652 345
- Coordinates
- 52.00538, -1.05133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Honesty Cottage is an 18th- to early 19th-century cottage located on the west side of Main Street, Water Stratford. The cottage is constructed of whitewashed rubble stone with timber lintels over the openings. It has a thatched roof and end stacks. The cottage is two storeys high and has three bays. The windows are varied 2-light metal casements, leaded in the upper left-hand bay. A single casement on the first floor in the centre bay is leaded with coloured glass. A 20th-century brick extension provides access to the rear door. The building is included on the list for group value.
Local climate
Honesty 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 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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