School Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1984. Former school.
School Cottage
- WRENN ID
- endless-joist-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1984
- Type
- Former school
- Address
- School Cottage, Latimer and Ley Hill
- OS grid reference
- TQ 003 988
- Coordinates
- 51.6791, -0.54999
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
School Cottage is a former school building dating from around 1850, designed in a letter-L plan. It is constructed of red brick and features old tile roofs. The building is single-storey, with the east wing comprising two bays and the north wing consisting of three bays. There is a porch with a four-centre arch and a flint lozenge panel above it at the angle. On either side of the central stack, there are two-light casements. The leaded casements include gable windows that are mullioned and transomed, complete with hoodmoulds. The window heads are gauged and flat arched, and flint lozenge panels adorn the gables. The stacks have over-sailing courses.
Local climate
School 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 84% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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