Holywell is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. A Post-Medieval Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Holywell
- WRENN ID
- stony-merlon-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Holywell, 50, Worminghall Road, Ickford, HP18 9JD
- OS grid reference
- SP 649 076
- Coordinates
- 51.76398, -1.05993
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holywell is a cottage dating from the late 17th century. It is timber-framed with colourwashed plaster infill and features a thatched roof, which includes a thatched lean-to on the right side. The cottage has two bays and stands at one and a half storeys. The left side has a boarded door, with a two-light casement window to its right and a one-light casement window on the right side. There is a small eaves dormer on the left, and flanking stacks are present.
Local climate
Holywell 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings