Oakend Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1985. Cottage.

Oakend Cottages

WRENN ID
pitched-hearth-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 April 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Oakend Cottages, 1 and 2, Amersham Road, Gerrards Cross
OS grid reference
TQ 008 888
Coordinates
51.5893, -0.54526
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Oakend Cottages is a pair of 18th-century cottages that have been extended. They are built of red brick and feature a plain tile roof, with a large outside stack at the north end. The south end extension includes a paired ridge stack and a modern stack. Cottage No. 1, located at the north end, has a brick band and two first-floor casement windows, along with a ground floor window with a cambered head, two modern windows, and a door. Cottage No. 2, at the south end, features two original first-floor leaded casement windows, a cambered central doorway, and has been extended by one window at the south end. There is also a modern rear addition to Cottage No. 1.

Local climate

Oakend Cottages 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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