Cobbler's Cottage and Front Garden Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1982. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

Cobbler's Cottage and Front Garden Railings

WRENN ID
peeling-obsidian-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 March 1982
Type
Cottage
Address
Cobbler's Cottage and Front Garden Railings, Church Road, Penn, HP10 8NX
OS grid reference
SU 908 933
Coordinates
51.63186, -0.68898
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cobbler's Cottage, dating from the 18th century, features a construction of red stretchers and grey headers, topped with a hipped old tile roof. The building stands two storeys tall and has three double-hung sash windows set in reveals with sills, while the ground floor displays flat arches. There is a central dummy window on the first floor. The cottage is complemented by a wooden trellis porch and iron spearhead garden railings.

Local climate

Cobbler's Cottage and Front Garden Railings sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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