Crucks Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1976. A C17 House.
Crucks Cottage
- WRENN ID
- calm-courtyard-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Crucks Cottage, High Street, Grendon Underwood
- OS grid reference
- SP 683 206
- Coordinates
- 51.88056, -1.00836
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crucks Cottage is a small house that dates back to the 17th century and is a remodelling of an earlier cruck building. It features whitewashed roughcast walls and a thatched roof with flanking brick chimneys. The cottage is one storey high with an attic and consists of two bays. The ground floor has three-light barred wooden casements with segmental heads, while the attic contains a paired wooden casement set in the thatch. To the right, there is a 19th-century bay that includes a late 1970s extension at the front, which has a hipped tile roof, a door on the left side, and similar barred wooden casements. Inside the original part of the cottage, there are three cruck trusses, with the blades terminating just above the collar.
Local climate
Crucks 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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