Latimer Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1984. House.
Latimer Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-buttress-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Latimer Cottage, Latimer and Ley Hill
- OS grid reference
- TQ 001 988
- Coordinates
- 51.67985, -0.55315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Latimer Cottage is a 17th century timber-framed house designed in a letter L plan. It has one and a half storeys and features a three-bay front. The building consists of two phases and has brick infill, leaded casements, and old tile roofs. The south-east front showcases gabled and projecting outer bays, with the left bay featuring a tile-roofed canted bay window. The center bay includes a gabled dormer and a central stack. The south-west front has right-hand bays with gabled dormers and a central gabled porch, while the left bay is at a higher level with a dormer and a weathered end stack. At the rear, a wing connects to a 19th-century outbuilding that has garage doors, brick infill, and a tiled roof.
Local climate
Latimer 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 83% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings