Old Chequers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Old Chequers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rooted-forge-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Chequers Cottage, Chequers Lane, Great Missenden, HP16 9DW
- OS grid reference
- SP 870 010
- Coordinates
- 51.70103, -0.74174
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Chequers Cottage is a building from the 18th and 19th centuries, constructed of flint and brick with some local sandstone. It features a hipped roof covered with old tiles and stands two storeys tall. The ground floor has a modern three-light casement window, while the first floor has a two-light casement window from the 19th century. On the south elevation, the left side is a 19th-century addition with sandstone panels, and there is a door on the right. The north elevation is notable for its large projecting chimney stack.
Local climate
Old Chequers Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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.
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 — 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
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