Swan Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1984. Cottage.
Swan Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-banister-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Swan Cottage, 42, Church Street, Great Missenden
- OS grid reference
- SP 896 011
- Coordinates
- 51.70218, -0.70393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swan Cottage is a 17th-century timber-framed building located on the south side of Church Street in Great Missenden. The ground floor is constructed of colourwashed brick, with tile hanging above. It features an old tiled roof and a large brick chimney stack at the center. The cottage has one storey and an attic, with two gabled ends that have shaped bargeboards and 3-light casement windows. The central entrance door is flanked by a 3-light casement window on the left and a 2-light casement window on the right. There is also a brick section on the left side, which includes a door and one modern 3-light casement window.
Local climate
Swan 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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