Old House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Old House Cottage
- WRENN ID
- haunted-flue-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old House Cottage, Main Street, Maids Moreton, MK18 1QU
- OS grid reference
- SP 705 354
- Coordinates
- 52.01262, -0.97306
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old House Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th to 18th century. It features a timber frame with plastered panels at the rear and brick infill on the left gable. The front is made of whitewashed rubble stone with brick eaves. The roof is thatched and has external brick end stacks, with the one on the right being large. The cottage is one storey and has an attic, comprising two bays. There are 19th-century three-light casements under timber lintels at the front, and 20th-century barred casements at the rear, including one in the thatch. The left gable has a paired 19th-century casement in the attic. There is a 20th-century lean-to on the left that connects to a 20th-century garage block.
Local climate
Old House 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 application
- 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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