The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1984. Residential. 1 related planning application.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-tin-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1984
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Latimer Village, Latimer and Ley Hill, HP5 1TZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 003 989
- Coordinates
- 51.68013, -0.54956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century timber-framed house of two storeys and three bays, situated in Latimer Village. The structure has colourwashed brick infill between the timbers, and a plain tile roof. The windows are leaded casements, including four two-light casements on the first floor. A central entry features a lean-to porch, flanked by hipped-roof ground-floor bay windows. The building was previously listed as No. 31.
Local climate
The Old 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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