Moor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1986. House. 1 related planning application.

Moor Cottage

WRENN ID
rough-quartz-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 January 1986
Type
House
Address
Moor Cottage, Plomer Green Lane, Downley, HP13 5XN
OS grid reference
SU 847 952
Coordinates
51.64933, -0.77579
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Moor Cottage is a house with a projecting bay at the front, which is dated 1723 on a beam. The rear wing dates from the 17th century, with an early 18th-century half bay to the right. The building has been altered and largely rebuilt in the 19th century, with refurbishments in the 20th century. It is mostly constructed of brick, with the right bays featuring some timber framing in the rear wall. The right gable is partly made of flint and partly rendered. The roof is covered with old tiles, and there is a brick chimney, partly rendered, at the center of the rear wing. The house is designed in an L-shape and has 1½ to 2 storeys with 2½ bays. The right bays have raised dentil eaves and a brick inscription reading "W. Hoskins 1810." The left bay is gabled and projecting. The windows on the ground floor right have been replaced with 20th-century leaded casements in hardwood frames, which replaced bay windows. There is a door in a 20th-century lean-to extension to the right of the projection. Inside, the cottage features timber-framed cross walls with diagonal bracing and a shaped bracket supporting the spine beam in the rear left room. The building is included for its group value.

Local climate

Moor Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
  • 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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