Paradise Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. A C15 House. 2 related planning applications.
Paradise Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-terrace-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Paradise Cottage, 11, Church End, Newton Longville, MK17 0AG
- OS grid reference
- SP 848 314
- Coordinates
- 51.97546, -0.76666
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Paradise Cottage is a small house dating from the 15th century, with alterations made over time. It features whitewashed render over a timber frame and has three cruck trusses, although two of them are incomplete. The roof is covered with 20th-century pantiles and has raised eaves. There is an external chimney on the left gable and a small brick chimney on the right. The building is 1½ storeys high and consists of two bays. The windows are wooden casements, with a three-light window on the ground floor to the left and a two-light window to the right. The first floor has 20th-century casements set in gabled semi-dormers, with two in the right-hand bay. The entrance is located in a 20th-century extension at the rear. Inside, there is an open fireplace with a timber-framed smoke hood.
Local climate
Paradise Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- 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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