Michaelmas Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1973. House.

Michaelmas Cottage

WRENN ID
crooked-moulding-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 April 1973
Type
House
Address
Michaelmas Cottage, 36, Well Street, Buckingham
OS grid reference
SP 694 337
Coordinates
51.9975, -0.98969
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Michaelmas Cottage is a house that likely dates back to the 17th century, with alterations made in the early 19th and 20th centuries. The exterior is rendered and features incised masonry patterns over a timber frame, topped with a plain-tile roof and a brick stack on the left side. The house has a two-unit plan and is two stories high, with a single-window range.

The central entrance consists of a six-panel door, which is accessed by three stone steps and framed by a moulded wood surround and a moulded straight hood supported by shaped brackets. On the ground floor, there are 16-pane sash windows on either side of the door, and another 16-pane sash window on the right side of the first floor, all with moulded wood surrounds. The building also has a rendered plinth and a deep coved plaster eaves cornice.

At the rear, there are 16-pane sash windows on both the ground and first floors, a leaded cross window on the right side of the first floor, and a small two-light dormer window featuring diamond leading. Inside, there is an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer.

Local climate

Michaelmas Cottage 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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