4 and 5, Recreation Ground is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
4 and 5, Recreation Ground
- WRENN ID
- last-loggia-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 4 and 5, Recreation Ground, Wingrave with Rowsham, HP22 4PH
- OS grid reference
- SP 868 189
- Coordinates
- 51.86199, -0.73979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 4 and 5 Recreation Ground are a pair of cottages built in 1876, as indicated by a plaque. They are constructed of red brick with half-timbered jettied gables featuring whitewashed roughcast infill. The cottages have a hipped tile roof that includes some fishscale patterning and an original large central brick chimney with pilasters. The buildings are two storeys high and have two asymmetrical bays.
The left bay features a canted bay window on the ground floor and a jettied gabled first floor with an altered 20th-century casement window. There is a porch on the left with a 20th-century single light window at the front and an entry to the side. The right bay has a cross casement window with a segmental head on the ground floor and a 20th-century eaves-breaking casement above. A whitewashed terracotta date plaque is located below the upper left-hand window, flanked by herringbone panels. There are also 20th-century extensions to the rear.
These cottages are part of a picturesque group built for Hannah de Rothschild, designed in a style influenced by the nearby work of George Devey at Ascott.
Local climate
4 and 5, Recreation Ground 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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