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
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- 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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