Why Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Why Cottage
- WRENN ID
- plain-moat-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Why Cottage, Hambleden, RG9 3AY
- OS grid reference
- SU 785 850
- Coordinates
- 51.55888, -0.86893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Why Cottage is a small house from the early 19th century. It features whitewashed roughcast with a slate roof that has overhanging eaves. There are flanking brick chimneys with octagonal shafts; the left chimney has two shafts, while the right has one. The building is two storeys high and has two bays. It has paired leaded casements with pointed lights and Tudor hoodmoulds. The door is slightly off-centre and has an arched top panel, set in a minimal porch made of whitewashed brick. There is a lean-to on the left side. At the rear, there are two bays with horizontal sliding sashes and two board doors.
Local climate
Why 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- 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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