Pound Lane Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1984. A C17-C18 House, cottage.
Pound Lane Cottages
- WRENN ID
- broken-moulding-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1984
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- Pound Lane Cottages, Preston Bissett
- OS grid reference
- SP 658 298
- Coordinates
- 51.9634, -1.04239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pound Lane Cottages is a house that was formerly a row of cottages, dating from the 17th to early 18th century. The structure features a whitewashed timber frame with brick and plaster infill. The ground floor of the right gable is made of slobbered rubble stone, with whitewashed brick above it. The left gable has the base of a large stone external stack with a lean-to in front of the angle. A main brick chimney is located between the right-hand bays, with a rubble stone stack exposed in the wall below. There is also a small chimney at the center. The building is 1½ storeys high with five irregular bays. It has barred or leaded casements, with five on the ground floor and three 2-light casements to the right of the first floor, all under thatch. There are three ledged board doors.
Local climate
Pound Lane Cottages 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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