Wren's Cottage Wren's Nest is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. A C17 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Wren's Cottage Wren's Nest
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-hall-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wren's Cottage Wren's Nest, Lower Hartwell, Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell, HP17 8NR
- OS grid reference
- SP 793 127
- Coordinates
- 51.80808, -0.85014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wren's Cottage, also known as Wren's Nest, is a 17th-century cottage constructed of witchert, which is rendered and painted. The cottage features a thatched roof with a half-hipped gable on the left-hand side and a right-hand gable that has replaced a former hipped end. There is a central brick chimney. The building is one storey with an attic and has two eaves dormers beneath the thatch, with the left-hand dormer being a recent addition. A small projecting tiled porch is present, featuring a two-light casement window under the right-hand dormer, with two-light casement windows on each side. A recent chimney has been added to the right-hand gable.
Local climate
Wren's Cottage Wren's Nest receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- 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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