The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. House.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-plaster-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Singleborough, Great Horwood
- OS grid reference
- SP 766 319
- Coordinates
- 51.981, -0.88527
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a house from the 17th century, constructed with a timber frame and whitewashed brick infill. The left-hand bay is weatherboarded, while the left gable features whitewashed rubblestone infill. The roof is thatched and hipped to the left, with a thin brick chimney stack located between the left-hand bays and a smaller brick stack on the right gable. The cottage has one and a half storeys and consists of three bays, with the left bay being wider and slightly lower than the others. It features leaded casements, with the ground floor showcasing two single lights in the left-hand bay, a canted bay window in the center, and a paired casement on the right. The right-hand bays have three-light casements beneath the thatch. There is a lobby entry with a boarded door situated in a large open gabled porch.
Local climate
The Old Cottage 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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