Cave Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. Cottage.
Cave Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-footing-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1954
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cave Cottage, West Wycombe
- OS grid reference
- SU 829 947
- Coordinates
- 51.64561, -0.80211
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cave Cottage, formerly listed as No 38 West Wycombe High Street, is a building dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century that has been restored. It is constructed of red and grey bricks with red brick dressings and features an old tiled roof. The cottage has one storey and attics, with two gabled dormers. There are three casement windows, all with glazing bars except for the central lattice window. A small bracketed doorhood is present, and the chimney stack on the left has red brick quoins.
Local climate
Cave 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 84% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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.
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