Shawe's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Shawe's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- standing-string-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Shawe's Cottage, Blacksmiths' Lane, Denham, UB9 4HN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 025 866
- Coordinates
- 51.56961, -0.52131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shawe's Cottage is a 17th-century timber-framed building with whitewashed brick walls and a hand-made tile roof. It has an L-shaped layout and features two old chimneys, one incorporating a bake oven. The front elevation is one storey and attic, with two gabled dormers each containing a two-light casement window with modern leaded lights. The ground floor has a central entrance door and two two-light casement windows. A modern one-storey extension is located on the left-hand side.
Local climate
Shawe's Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings