The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. House. 1 related planning application.

The Thatched Cottage

WRENN ID
scarred-tracery-sepia
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
The Thatched Cottage, Tennis Lane, Winslow, MK18 3HR
OS grid reference
SP 772 274
Coordinates
51.94013, -0.87818
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Thatched Cottage is a house from the 17th century, constructed with a timber frame and partially whitewashed brick infill in the west gable end, while the rest of the building features whitewashed roughcast. It has a thatched roof that is half-hipped on the left side, with a brick stack on the right and a rendered stack on the left. The cottage has two storeys and an attic, comprising two bays. The north front displays small, irregular 19th-century casements, with a 20th-century door in the left-hand bay and a blocked door to the right. The south front features 20th-century casements.

Local climate

The Thatched Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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