Melgan Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1977. House. 1 related planning application.
Melgan Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-wattle-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Melgan Cottage, Village Road, Denham, UB9 5BH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 040 871
- Coordinates
- 51.57328, -0.49961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Melgan Cottage is a 17th-century building located on Denham Village Road. It features a red brick exterior over a timber frame and has an old tile roof. The cottage has a gable end facing the street, which is barge-boarded. It is two storeys high, with the first floor containing one 2-light casement window. The ground floor has a door and one 2-light casement window, both of which have cambered arches and leaded lights. There is a square single chimney stack on the right-hand side, and the left side of the cottage displays exposed timber-framing.
Local climate
Melgan Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- 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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