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

Smithy Cottage

WRENN ID
ruined-bronze-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1985
Type
House
Address
Smithy Cottage, Great and Little Hampden
OS grid reference
SP 863 024
Coordinates
51.71397, -0.75158
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Smithy Cottage is a small house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of brick and features a thatched roof that is half-hipped to the left, with a brick chimney on the right. The building has one storey and an attic, comprising two bays. The front of the cottage has three-light leaded casements on the ground floor. The left gable includes an old paired leaded casement at ground level and a 20th-century three-light leaded casement above. There is an outshot at the rear.

Local climate

Smithy 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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