Primrose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Primrose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hidden-bonework-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Primrose Cottage, Grendon Road, Grendon Underwood, HP18 0QU
- OS grid reference
- SP 692 191
- Coordinates
- 51.86686, -0.99612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Primrose Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It is built with a rough whitewashed render over a cob structure, and has a thatched roof. There are brick chimneys to the left and centre of the building. The house is 1½ storeys high, with three main bays and a half bay between the left bays. It features paired leaded casement windows, with those on the upper floor set within the thatch eyebrows. A single leaded light window is on the ground floor of the half bay, accompanied by a small two-light wooden casement just below the eaves. A board door is located on the ground floor. A 20th-century barred and glazed door sits between the right bays. Plaster motifs depicting a Tudor rose and grotesque heads are positioned at the corners and above the board door. A 20th-century conservatory has been added to the right, and a lean-to extension to the rear.
Local climate
Primrose 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- 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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