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

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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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