Swiss Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
Swiss Cottage
- WRENN ID
- former-arch-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Swiss Cottage, 8, Station Road, Haddenham, HP17 8AJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 740 080
- Coordinates
- 51.76667, -0.92864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swiss Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with a rear extension added around 1880. The building features witchert construction, roughcast on the front, and some rubble on the sides, with a rubble plinth. It has a thatched roof, while the rear block is made of brick with a tile roof. The house has two bays and two storeys, with a central board door set in a rustic thatched porch. The windows are leaded casements, with three-light windows in the outer bays and transom lights on the ground floor, and a two-light window above the central door. A central brick stack indicates the lobby entry plan of the house. The left gable is made of rubble and has a three-light window on the first floor, while the right gable is rendered with a rubble gable above a brick band and features two three-light leaded casements. The roof is half-hipped, and the roughcast front elevation is treated to resemble coursed masonry blocks. Inside, the house has chamfered and stopped spine beams.
Local climate
Swiss Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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