The Small Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Small Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hushed-porch-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Small Cottage, 32, Queen Catherine Road, Steeple Claydon, MK18 2PY
- OS grid reference
- SP 702 268
- Coordinates
- 51.93613, -0.97964
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century cottage located on Queen Catherine Road in Steeple Claydon. It is a timber-frame building with whitewashed plaster infill and diagonal bracing. The roof is thatched, with brick chimneys situated at the centre and right-hand gable. The cottage is one-and-a-half storeys high and has two bays. Windows are leaded casements; there’s a two-light window on the ground floor to the right, a three-light window in the left-hand bay which extends into the thatched roof, and leaded casements in the gable ends of the first floor. A 20th-century door is set within a lean-to tiled porch on the left side of the cottage.
Local climate
The Small Cottage 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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
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