Wells Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. House.
Wells Cottage
- WRENN ID
- kindled-hall-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wells Cottage, Hawks Hill, Wooburn
- OS grid reference
- SU 904 872
- Coordinates
- 51.57652, -0.6958
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wells Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, which was refurbished in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with diagonal braces and whitewashed brick infill, while the left gable and plinth are rendered and whitewashed. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has flanking whitewashed brick chimneys. The cottage is one storey with an attic and consists of three bays. The ground floor has irregular 20th-century leaded casements, and there are 3-light windows in gabled dormers on the left and center. A central 20th-century door completes the facade.
Local climate
Wells 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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