May Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. A C17-C18 House. 2 related planning applications.
May Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-jade-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- May Cottage, Hedsor Road, SL8 5ES
- OS grid reference
- SU 900 865
- Coordinates
- 51.57104, -0.70188
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
May Cottage is a house dating from the 17th and early 18th centuries, with later additions to the right and rear. It is timber framed, with whitewashed roughcast and render infill, and a plain tile roof. A small whitewashed brick chimney is on the left side. The house is one storey and has an attic. Windows are 20th-century leaded casements; the left bay has a two-light oriel window on the ground floor and a four-light window in a large gabled dormer in the eaves. The right bay has a smaller dormer window. A gabled roughcast porch with a door is located to the right of centre. A taller, one-bay extension to the right features half-timbering in the lower storey and a 20th-century two-light casement window. The rear of the original cottage has whitewashed brick infill and later brick buttresses. 20th-century rear extensions are roughcast and whitewashed.
Local climate
May Cottage 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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