Rivendell is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1984. Cottage.
Rivendell
- WRENN ID
- pale-paling-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rivendell, Whale's Lane, Marsh Gibbon
- OS grid reference
- SP 645 227
- Coordinates
- 51.89961, -1.06271
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rivendell is a small cottage dating from the 18th century. It has a timber frame with plastered infill on the left gable and rear, whitewashed render on the front, and whitewashed rubble stone on the right gable. The cottage features a thatched roof that is half-hipped on the left side and has a brick chimney on the right gable. It is 1½ storeys high and consists of one bay. The front of the cottage has 19th-century paired barred casements, with the first-floor window also covered in thatch. The left gable includes a glazed panel, a small brick extension, and a lean-to half-timbered porch. There is also a brick lean-to at part of the rear.
Local climate
Rivendell 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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