Well Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1986. House.

Well Cottage

WRENN ID
deep-keystone-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 January 1986
Type
House
Address
Well Cottage, the Common, Downley
OS grid reference
SU 850 953
Coordinates
51.65064, -0.77275
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Well Cottage is a house dated 1813, constructed of chequer brick with a rendered plinth and dentil eaves. It features a 20th-century tile roof and flanking brick chimneys. The building is two storeys high and has two bays. The windows are sash style, with 4-pane windows that have cambered heads on the ground floor and 5-pane windows on the first floor. The central entrance consists of a half-glazed, flush-panelled door, which is topped by a later flat wooden hood supported by brackets. To the right, there is a weatherboard shed set back from the main structure. At the rear, there is a flint and brick wing that has chequered off-set eaves and an old hipped tile roof.

Local climate

Well Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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