Pound Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. Residential building.
Pound Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stranded-belfry-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1954
- Type
- Residential building
- Address
- Pound Cottage, Chapel Street, West Wycombe
- OS grid reference
- SU 828 946
- Coordinates
- 51.64495, -0.80456
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pound Cottage, formerly known as School Cottage, is an early 18th-century building located on Chapel Street in West Wycombe. It features flint rubble walls with red brick quoins and dressings, topped by an old tiled roof. The cottage is a single storey with attics and has two casement windows with glazing bars. There are three gabled casement dormers, previously two, also with glazing bars. A modern two-window west wing has been added. The cottage is noted for its group value, as it is part of a group that includes Clerk of Works Cottage and Bird World Cottage.
Local climate
Pound 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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