Ancient Lights Harbour Lights is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Ancient Lights Harbour Lights

WRENN ID
dim-floor-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 April 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
Ancient Lights Harbour Lights, Main Street, Tingewick, MK18 4NL
OS grid reference
SP 654 328
Coordinates
51.9902, -1.0476
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ancient Lights and Harbour Lights is a range of two 18th century cottages located on the south side of Main Street in Tingewick. They are constructed from colour-washed rubble stone and feature thatched roofs with brick stacks at the gables and in the center. The right gable displays a timber roof truss with brick infill. Each cottage has wooden lintels above the openings and is two storeys high, consisting of two bays with a central door. Ancient Lights, on the right, has three-light wooden casements, with the lower left bay barred, and a modern door beneath a flat wooden hood supported by brackets. Harbour Lights, on the left, features three-light metal casements and a modern door under a thatch hood.

Local climate

Ancient Lights Harbour Lights 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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