Manor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1955. A C16 House.

Manor Cottage

WRENN ID
silent-newel-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1955
Type
House
Address
Manor Cottage, Church End, Bledlow-Cum-Saunderton
OS grid reference
SP 778 021
Coordinates
51.7124, -0.87526
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor Cottage is a house that was once a mill house, dating from the 16th to early 17th century. It features a timber frame with thin brick infill, some of which is arranged in a herringbone pattern. The right gable is roughcast, while the rear is rendered and whitewashed. The cottage has a flint plinth and a half-hipped roof covered with old tiles, which includes a large H-plan chimney made of thin brick located between the left bays, with the left shaft partially rebuilt. There is also a later roughcast chimney at the right end.

The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays. It has irregular casements, mostly with wooden glazing bars, and the first floor includes some leaded lights. On the ground floor, there is a 4-pane sash window in the centre, with a blocked original window immediately to the left. The entrance features a lobby with a board door and a 20th-century gabled timber porch. To the left, there is a narrow extension made of flint and brick, along with a later outshot at the rear of the left half. Inside, the cottage has stop-chamfered spine beams, diagonal braces, and diagonal wind-braces.

Local climate

Manor Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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