Old Century Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1983. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Old Century Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-gallery-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Century Cottage, Main Street, Akeley, MK18 5HW
- OS grid reference
- SP 707 376
- Coordinates
- 52.03283, -0.97058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Century Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with a timber frame. The gable end facing the road features a whitewashed rubble stone base, with stone and brick infill above the frame. The entrance front to the south is rendered and shows studding. The cottage has a thatched roof with a stack on the street gable. It is one-and-a-half storeys tall and consists of two bays. The ground floor has paired barred metal casements, while the first floor has a paired half-leaded casement to the left and a single leaded casement to the right, both beneath thatch eyebrows. There is a barred glazed 20th-century door to the left of center. To the left, a lower extension is set back, rendered with a thatched roof and 20th-century openings. The rear features barred 20th-century casements.
Local climate
Old Century 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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