Kingsdial Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.

Kingsdial Cottage

WRENN ID
stony-turret-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1987
Type
House
Address
Kingsdial Cottage, Henley Road, Medmenham, SL7 2EU
OS grid reference
SU 815 851
Coordinates
51.55909, -0.82451
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Kingsdial Cottage is a house that was originally built as a gardener's house in the mid-19th century and later extended in the 20th century. It was constructed for the estate of Charles Robert Scott Murray of Danesfield. The building features coursed and knapped flint with brick dressings and has a plain tile roof. A brick chimney is located on the left side, topped with a row of three square shafts linked at the cap and string.

The cottage is 1½ storeys high and consists of three bays. The right bay is slightly advanced and has a gabled roof with bargeboards. The windows are cast iron diagonal lattice casements set in chamfered brick surrounds, with two-light windows on the ground floor left and first floor. The upper windows in the left bays are located in semi-dormers with half-timbered gables. There is a central 20th-century door situated in a 20th-century lean-to porch. The right bay features a 4-centred chamfered brick arch, which now has leaded glazing but was formerly open, providing a passage to the kitchen garden. Above this arch is a sundial set in a stone surround, along with a knapped flint and stone plaque displaying the initials SM in the gable.

To the right of the cottage, there is a 20th-century matching bay and a double garage, while to the left, there are other 20th-century U-plan extensions that incorporate a small 19th-century outbuilding.

Local climate

Kingsdial Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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