26 and 28, Leighton Road is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. Cottage.

26 and 28, Leighton Road

WRENN ID
tangled-buttress-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 July 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
26 and 28, Leighton Road, Wingrave with Rowsham
OS grid reference
SP 871 192
Coordinates
51.86485, -0.73599
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 26 and 28 Leighton Road are a pair of cottages built as lodge cottages for Wingrave Manor House, now known as Mount Tabor House. They are symmetrical to Nos. 22 and 24 and are dated 1876 on a terracotta plaque. The cottages are designed in a picturesque style influenced by the work of George Devey. The ground floor is constructed of red brick, while the first floor features fishscale tile-hanging and half-timbering with whitewashed rendered infill. The roof is tiled, displaying some fishscale patterning, and there are brick chimneys with pilasters.

The cottages are two storeys high, with two asymmetrical bays on each front. The bays on the northwest side are gabled, with the left gable being larger and projecting. It has a jettied first floor and three-light barred wooden casements, with the upper casement set in an oriel with a coved base and a lean-to tiled roof. There is a blocked door in the right return wall, which has a small tiled hood supported by brackets. The right bay features similar casements, with a two-light arrangement on the ground floor and a single light above. The right side wall includes a lean-to porch with heavy turned wooden balusters, a hipped dormer above, and a gabled bay to the right.

Local climate

26 and 28, Leighton Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 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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