The Milk Pail is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Milk Pail
- WRENN ID
- leaning-groin-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Milk Pail, 8, West Street, Steeple Claydon, MK18 2NT
- OS grid reference
- SP 698 270
- Coordinates
- 51.93797, -0.98589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Milk Pail is a 17th-century cottage located on the north side of West Street in Steeple Claydon. It is timber framed with brick infill and has a plastered right-hand gable. The cottage features a thatched roof with a central brick chimney stack. It is 1½ storeys high and consists of two bays. The ground floor has 20th-century leaded casement windows, with a three-light window on the left and a two-light window on the right, along with a single light window above in the thatch. There is a central 20th-century door. The right-hand gable has similar windows on both the ground and first floors, with a small paired casement window above. Additionally, there are lean-tos on the left and rear of the building.
Local climate
The Milk Pail 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 77% 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 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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