Wood Cottage and Thatchers is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. House.

Wood Cottage and Thatchers

WRENN ID
last-jade-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1985
Type
House
Address
Wood Cottage and Thatchers, Upper Icknield Way, Princes Risborough
OS grid reference
SP 819 043
Coordinates
51.73154, -0.81516
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wood Cottage and Thatchers is a pair of small houses dating from the 17th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 18th century and later. The left bays feature a timber frame with whitewashed brick infill, while the ground floor is similarly constructed in brick. The left gable and rear wing are made of flint with brick dressings, part of a 20th-century extension. The right side consists of 1½ bays of whitewashed brick. The thatched roof is half-hipped on the left and has tiles flanking the central dormers. There are brick chimneys located on the left, between the left bays, and at the front of the right bay. The building is 1½ storeys high. The ground floor has wooden casements with bars, including one three-light window, three two-light windows, and two single lights next to the chimney on the right. The upper floor features a four-light leaded casement window in thatch on the left, along with two 19th to 20th-century dormers at the eaves, each with three-light barred wooden casements and fishscale shingles in the gables.

Local climate

Wood Cottage and Thatchers 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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