Windmill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. House.

Windmill Cottage

WRENN ID
broken-bracket-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 January 1985
Type
House
Address
Windmill Cottage, 13-15, the Green, Quainton
OS grid reference
SP 746 201
Coordinates
51.87515, -0.91659
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Windmill Cottage is a house that was originally three cottages, dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the late 18th century and later. It features a rubble stone plinth with some thin brickwork above, and includes some timber framing that is partly rendered, particularly in the cross wing to the right and in the left gable. The rest of the building has been rebuilt in red and vitreous brick, with the first floor of the center bay displaying a pattern of vertical strips of red brick. There is a partial first floor band course and dentil eaves. The roof is covered with old tiles and is half-hipped over the cross wing. A thin brick chimney is located between the left bays, and there is another small brick chimney on the right wing. The building is L-shaped, with the right bay projecting to the front. It has two storeys and three bays, featuring 20th-century wooden casements with three and four lights. A 20th-century door is situated between the left bays, and there is a boarded door with a segmental head in the left return wall of the right bay. Additionally, there is a small brick extension to the left.

Local climate

Windmill 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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