The Red Cow is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. Public house. 3 related planning applications.

The Red Cow

WRENN ID
tired-truss-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1987
Type
Public house
Address
The Red Cow, the Green, Wooburn, HP10 0EF
OS grid reference
SU 914 885
Coordinates
51.58826, -0.68205
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Red Cow is a public house dating from the late 16th to 17th century. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick infill, although the ground floor has mostly been rebuilt in whitewashed brick, with the right gable rendered. The building has an old tile roof and a rebuilt brick chimney with grouped shafts between the left bays. It stands two storeys tall and has three bays. The windows are barred wooden types: the left bay includes a 20th-century window and a 19th to 20th-century canted bay window on the ground floor, with paired casements above; the centre bay and upper right bay have horizontal sliding sashes. The ground floor of the right bay has a former vehicle entry that now features barred and glazed upper doors. There is a door in a 20th-century half-timbered gabled porch situated between the left bays, with a slight rectangular recess in the panel above the porch. Inside, the building is said to have curved braces in the framing.

Local climate

The Red Cow sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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