Limes Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1982. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Limes Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hollow-gateway-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Limes Cottage, Mill End, Little Missenden, HP7 0RG
- OS grid reference
- SU 927 989
- Coordinates
- 51.68158, -0.65958
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Limes Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with additions and alterations from the 18th century and modern times. The original part of the house is timber framed with red brick infill and has an old tile roof with a dormer window. It is a single-storey and attic building with one modern window. A modern wing to the left replicates the style of the original and features a roof of variegated red tiles. To the right is an 18th-century single-storey, one-window brick penthouse with a hipped old tile roof.
Local climate
Limes 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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