Beam Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.
Beam Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eastward-parapet-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beam Cottage, Lower Church Street, Cuddington, HP18 0AS
- OS grid reference
- SP 737 112
- Coordinates
- 51.79499, -0.93179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beam Cottage is a house dating from around 1600. It features a timber frame that is now colourwashed over roughcast, with a rubblestone plinth and an old tile roof that is partly colourwashed. The building consists of four bays, with the left bay showing dressed rubblestone above a chamfered plinth, which may indicate the back wall of a former large lateral stack. The house is two storeys high.
There is an off-centre door in the right of the centre bay, framed in chamfered oak. To the left of this bay, there is an exposed post that reaches up to the first floor level. The right side of the second bay from the left has two 2-light casements on both the ground and first floors, while the entrance bay features single light casements. The first floor of the left bay has a 2-light ovolo mullioned and framed casement that has been removed from the rear elevation. There are stacks located at the right gable and between the left-hand bays.
Inside, there is a cellar beneath the right-hand bay, and much of the interior showcases exposed timber-framing along with timber-framed partition walls made of heavy scantling. The right-hand bay includes chamfered and stopped crossbeams, and the second bay from the left has two chamfered and stopped spine beams.
Local climate
Beam Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 9 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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