Dairy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Dairy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-render-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dairy Cottage, Mentmore, LU7 0QG
- OS grid reference
- SP 908 196
- Coordinates
- 51.86796, -0.6818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dairy Cottage is a house, originally built as a house and dairy, around 1859. It features whitewashed brick and a dark tiled roof adorned with bands of fishscale tiles and bargeboards, along with brick chimneys. The windows are fitted with cast iron glazing bars that have diamond motifs, segmental heads, and sills with brick dentils. The building is 1 ½ storeys high and has three irregular bays. The left bay is set back and includes a small single light window on the ground floor. The center bay is gabled and projects outward, featuring a three-light casement window on the ground floor and a two-light window above. The lower window has a hipped tiled hood with an ornamental wooden fringe supported by shaped brackets. The right bay contains a two-light casement window and is surrounded on three sides by a verandah with a lean-to roof, supported by rustic wooden posts and brackets, and featuring a similar ornamental wooden fringe. There is a door located on the left side in a single-storey bay with a parapet. A dated contract drawing can be found in the County Record Office, reference number D/RO/4/27.
Local climate
Dairy Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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