April Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1973. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
April Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- April Cottage, Elm Road, Penn, HP10 8LB
- OS grid reference
- SU 907 936
- Coordinates
- 51.63448, -0.69032
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
April Cottage is a house with origins dating back to the 17th century, with significant alterations made in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It is two storeys high and built of red brick with purple brick headers. The front elevation features two three-light leaded casement windows. A brick eaves cornice runs along the top, and the roof is covered with old tiles, with a higher ridge on the right-hand side. There are two chimney stacks. The underlying structure is timber-framed.
Local climate
April Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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