The Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. House.
The Keeper's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- second-terrace-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Keeper's Cottage, Sheepridge Lane, Little Marlow
- OS grid reference
- SU 883 894
- Coordinates
- 51.59708, -0.72622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Keeper's Cottage is a small house dating from the early to mid-18th century, with renovations made in 1939. It features a timber frame with brick infill, which is whitewashed on the right side. The front gable end and the left side of the rear bay have been rebuilt in brick during the 19th and 20th centuries. The cottage has an old tile roof and an external brick chimney on the left side of the front bay, along with 20th-century brick chimneys on the rear gable. It is two storeys high and consists of two bays. The gable end facing the road has 20th-century three-light leaded casement windows, with a leaded lunette above the upper window. There is a 20th-century glazed door to the right, and the lower openings feature cambered heads. A 20th-century lean-to porch is located on the right side of the rear bay. Inside, the front bay includes a stop-chamfered spine beam and fairly substantial joists.
Local climate
The Keeper's Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% 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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