Olmeda the Gate Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Olmeda the Gate Cottage
- WRENN ID
- secret-transept-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Olmeda the Gate Cottage, Ferry Lane, Medmenham, SL7 2EZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 805 838
- Coordinates
- 51.54805, -0.8394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of estate cottages, dating from around 1900 and designed by Romaine Walker for Mr. Robert Hudson, originally served as a lodge to Medmenham Abbey. The building is in an L-shaped layout. The lower storey is constructed of dressed chalk blocks, some whitewashed, with windows featuring ovolo-moulded chalk mullions. The upper storey is roughcast and whitewashed, with a wooden bressumer and wood mullion windows. The roof is tiled, featuring ornamental wooden bargeboards and remnants of twisted wooden finials; the chimneys are brick with ‘V’ pilasters and offset heads. The asymmetrical west front, with two and a half bays, has a gable on the left side, where the upper storey juts out on brackets. There are irregular leaded casements on the ground floor, and a five-light, leaded oriel window within the gable. The right bay has a board and stud door set within a moulded and stopped chalk surround, featuring a four-centred arch and carved spandrels. The right gable end is also jettied, with an oriel window. A jettied rear wing has similar casements and a door, a gabled semi-dormer, and a 20th-century conservatory at its right end.
Local climate
Olmeda the Gate Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 11 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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