Ness Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. House.
Ness Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-rampart-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ness Cottage, High Street, West Wycombe
- OS grid reference
- SU 827 946
- Coordinates
- 51.64473, -0.80478
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ness Cottage is an early 18th-century building located on the north side of High Street in West Wycombe. It is constructed of flint rubble with red brick quoins and dressings, topped with an old tiled roof. The south side elevation is colour washed and features a gabled design with modern bargeboards. The cottage is a single storey with an attic, and it has two flush three-light casements with glazing bars, as well as two gabled casement dormers. Ness Cottage is part of a group that includes Nos 35 to 37, The Church Loft, Nos 45 to 54, Nos 56 to 59, Steps House, The Plough Inn, The Apple Orchard, The Old Smithy, West Wycombe Estate Office, and Rose Cottage.
Local climate
Ness 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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