Ford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.

Ford Cottage

WRENN ID
lone-timber-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 July 1985
Type
House
Address
Ford Cottage, Sandpit Lane, Bledlow-Cum-Saunderton, HP27 9QL
OS grid reference
SP 777 038
Coordinates
51.72809, -0.8761
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ford Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century that has been altered and refurbished in 1985. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick infill and a half-hipped roof covered with old tiles. There are later brick chimneys located between the left bays and to the right. The house is two storeys high and consists of three bays. The right bay and the first floor of the centre bay have paired 20th-century two-light wooden casements, while the ground floor of the centre bay has one two-light casement. A 20th-century door is situated between the right bays. The left bay includes a 19th to 20th-century two-storey half-hipped projection made of whitewashed brick, featuring paired wooden casements on the first floor. Inside, the cottage displays timber framing with curved braces and wind-braces. The right bays contain heavy stop-chamfered spine beams and joists, which are likely re-set. There is no trace of the original chimney.

Local climate

Ford 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 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • 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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