Gate Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. House. 1 related planning application.

Gate Cottage

WRENN ID
odd-cornice-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1985
Type
House
Address
Gate Cottage, Princes Risborough, HP27 9NF
OS grid reference
SP 794 029
Coordinates
51.71954, -0.85094
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gate Cottage is a house that likely dates from the 17th to early 18th century, with picturesque alterations made in the 19th century and renovations and extensions in the 20th century. The exterior features whitewashed roughcast with some timbering and a half-hipped thatched roof. There are 19th-century brick chimneys with diagonal shafts, two located between the right bays and one between the left bays. The house has one and a half storeys and three bays, with a 20th-century extension on the left. The left bays contain 20th-century barred wooden casements with three or four lights, while the upper storey features casements in thatch. The right bay has a 20th-century three-light leaded casement on the ground floor. A boarded door between the right bays has a pointed arched head and is sheltered by a 20th-century porch with a hipped tile roof supported by wooden posts. The right gable includes a canted bay window with four arched leaded lights, and there is a lean-to structure at the rear.

Local climate

Gate 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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 — 2 transactions since 2004
  • 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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