Horseshoe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. House. 1 related planning application.

Horseshoe Cottage

WRENN ID
secret-pier-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1984
Type
House
Address
Horseshoe Cottage, Church Lane, Marsworth, HP23 4LX
OS grid reference
SP 919 145
Coordinates
51.8218, -0.6671
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Horseshoe Cottage is a house that originated as a single bay in the 17th century and was later extended to the front in the late 18th and 19th centuries, creating an L-shaped plan. It features a 18th-century bay at the rear, which may have once been an outbuilding, along with a 20th-century single-storey extension in the angle. The front facing the road is made of whitewashed brick and includes a timber truss in the left gable, an old tiled roof, and rebuilt brick chimneys. The cottage is two storeys high with two bays. The left bay has a gabled front and features 20th-century three-light leaded casements with segmental heads. To the right, there is a boarded door within a timber-framed porch. The right bay has off-set eaves and 20th-century two-light casements, with the lower ones being leaded and having a segmental head. A shallow full-height lean-to of whitewashed brick is located to the left. Inside the 17th-century bay, there is a timber frame with large curved braces, a stop-chamfered spine beam, and a large chimney stack aligned with a winder stair.

Local climate

Horseshoe Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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