St Mary's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

St Mary's Cottage

WRENN ID
solemn-lime-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 October 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
St Mary's Cottage, 8, Risborough Road, Stoke Mandeville, HP22 5UT
OS grid reference
SP 834 102
Coordinates
51.785, -0.79133
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Mary's Cottage is a cottage that dates from the medieval period and the 17th century, with some alterations. It is timber framed, featuring white painted plaster and brick infill and casing. The cottage has a thatched roof that is half-hipped at the west end, and it includes a central chimney made of old bricks. The building is two stories high with an attic.

On the south elevation, there is a low gable on the right-hand side, which has a three-light casement window on both the ground and first floors. The left-hand part consists of two bays with a small modern tiled porch and three single-light leaded windows, one of which on the first floor contains old glass. The west gable features a three-light casement window on both the ground and first floors, along with three attic windows arranged in a row. The east elevation has two and three-light casement windows on the ground floor and one three-light eaves dormer in thatch.

Inside the cottage, there is one cruck truss located in the north wall of the bay, along with exposed 17th-century beams in the two western bays.

Local climate

St Mary's Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
  • 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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