Lavender Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. House.
Lavender Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-crypt-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lavender Cottage, Princes Risborough
- OS grid reference
- SP 815 051
- Coordinates
- 51.7392, -0.82066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lavender Cottage is a small house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the early 19th century. The right bay features a timber frame with a curved brace and brick infill on the first floor. The ground floor and left bay are rebuilt in flint with brick dressings. The cottage has a thatched roof, which is hipped to the right, and a brick chimney on the left. It has one and a half storeys. The right bay includes a three-light barred wooden casement on the ground floor and a two-light wooden casement with single horizontal glazing bars just below the thatch. The left bay features a large paired barred wooden casement, a boarded door, and a single light window to the right. All ground floor openings have segmental brick heads. The thatch extends down over a weatherboard shed to the right, and there is a 20th-century brick extension to the left.
Local climate
Lavender 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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