The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1955. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-solder-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Church Road, Little Marlow, SL7 3RT
- OS grid reference
- SU 873 879
- Coordinates
- 51.584, -0.74017
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century that has been altered over time. It features whitewashed roughcast with the upper storey having concealed timber framing. The roof is covered with old tiles and there is a large central brick chimney. The building has two storeys, with the upper storey jettied at the front. It consists of two gabled bays, with the right bay being a cross-wing that includes a central gabled two-storey porch projection. The windows are 20th-century leaded casements, with the main bays having four-light windows and the ground floor featuring canted bay windows. The porch projection is also jettied and has an old two-light leaded casement on the first floor, along with a 20th-century door and a 20th-century lean-to tiled verandah. At the rear, there is a catslide roof, which may be of a later date, and a 19th-century single-storey extension. There is also a 20th-century whitewashed brick extension set back to the right. Inside, timber framing is visible in the upper storey, which includes some curved braces.
Local climate
The Old 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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