Numbers 1 and 2 Chapel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1986. Residential.

Numbers 1 and 2 Chapel Cottage

WRENN ID
waiting-merlon-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 January 1986
Type
Residential
Address
Numbers 1 and 2 Chapel Cottage, Moor Lane, Downley
OS grid reference
SU 848 953
Coordinates
51.65067, -0.77442
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 1 and 2 Chapel Cottage is a pair of houses built around 1800. They feature a combination of chequer brick and flint with a slate plinth, topped by an old tile roof and flanked by brick chimneys, one of which is truncated at the ridge line. The cottages are two storeys tall with an attic and consist of two bays. There is a partial band course at the first floor level.

In the left bay, there is a horizontal sliding sash window on the ground floor and a paired barred wooden casement window on the first floor. The right bay has 20th-century windows that resemble sashes but include top-hung upper lights. At the centre, there is a barred wooden window at the first floor level, a small oval window just below the eaves, and two doors: the left door is flush-panelled and top-lit, while the right door is from the 20th century. To the left, there is a weatherboard and corrugated iron shed, and at the rear, there are two-storey brick wings.

Local climate

Numbers 1 and 2 Chapel 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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