Cowcroft Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1984. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Cowcroft Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- plain-barrel-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cowcroft Farmhouse, Tyler's Hill Road, Latimer and Ley Hill, HP5 1XJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 983 016
- Coordinates
- 51.70463, -0.57865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cowcroft Farmhouse is a 17th-century brick house dated 1671, featuring two storeys plus dormers and three bays. The building is constructed of red and grey brick and has an old tile roof with a cornice band and two dormers. The west front has a central doorway with a modern porch and three modern casements that have original flat arches. There is a band course and two panelled stacks. The house has a double pile design with two hips at the east or rear. At the rear, there are 17th-century leaded casements. On the west elevation, plaques between the first-floor windows display 'IW1671' and 'SA, TD'. Inside, the farmhouse retains its original dogleg staircase, which features turned balusters, a closed string, a moulded handrail, and ball finials on the newels. There is also a full staircase leading to the attic storey.
Local climate
Cowcroft Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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 — 3 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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