Lych Gate Cottage (Premises of Brown and Company Solicitors) is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. House.

Lych Gate Cottage (Premises of Brown and Company Solicitors)

WRENN ID
gaunt-rood-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 December 1958
Type
House
Address
Lych Gate Cottage (Premises of Brown and Company Solicitors), High Street, Chalfont St. Giles
OS grid reference
SU 990 935
Coordinates
51.63168, -0.57024
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lych Gate Cottage, which serves as the premises for Brown and Company Solicitors, is a late 16th-century timber-framed house located on the southeast side of High Street in Chalfont St Giles. The building consists of two bays and is two stories tall, featuring colourwashed brick infill and an old tile roof. It has 18th-century box sash windows with 19th-century margined panes. The entry is situated below the upper floor of No 22. The cottage has jettied front and rear sections, with the right side of the west bay underbuilt. A covered passageway runs through the left bay, leading to the churchyard. Inside the passage, the beams and joists date from the late 16th century. The rear of the building has later brick and stud infill over the passageway, along with extensions to the rear of the west bay and a large stack made of old thin bricks.

Local climate

Lych Gate Cottage (Premises of Brown and Company Solicitors) 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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