Ammonite Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. Cottage. 11 related planning applications.
Ammonite Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-shingle-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ammonite Cottage, Marston Hill, Oving, HP22 4HB
- OS grid reference
- SP 786 217
- Coordinates
- 51.88904, -0.85852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ammonite Cottage is a small squatter cottage dating from around 1800. It is constructed of whitewashed rubble stone and features a roof made of corrugated iron over thatch, which is hipped at the front. The cottage has two storeys and consists of one bay. The front has paired barred wooden casements, with two on the ground floor and one above. The right side also has a similar casement and a paired leaded casement on the first floor. To the left, there is a single-storey extension made of whitewashed render with a slate roof, which includes a similar casement and a boarded door. Additionally, there is a garage with a corrugated iron roof to the left of the cottage.
Local climate
Ammonite 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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