Hook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. A Early Victorian House. 6 related planning applications.
Hook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hushed-foundation-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Period
- Early Victorian
- Address
- Hook Cottage, Princes Risborough, HP27 9LT
- OS grid reference
- SP 816 052
- Coordinates
- 51.73971, -0.81833
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hook Cottage is an early 19th-century house located in Princes Risborough, Ascott. The front is made of colourwashed dressed chalk blocks, while the left gable features colourwashed render, and the right gable and rear are constructed from flint and chalk rubble. The building has moulded eaves and a slate roof, with flanking brick chimneys. It is two storeys high and has two bays. The windows are 4-pane sashes with segmental heads. There is a later central porch that is rendered and colourwashed, featuring a flat roof and moulded eaves, with a blind window panel above the door. At the rear, there are 3-light casements, leaded on the first floor and wooden below, with flush chalk voussoirs, and a single casement above a central boarded door.
Local climate
Hook 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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