Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1982. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vast-latch-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rectory Cottage, Dean Way, Chalfont St. Giles, HP8 4JH
- OS grid reference
- SU 988 933
- Coordinates
- 51.63072, -0.57253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rectory Cottage is a small house dating to 1799. The construction is evidenced by inscribed bricks at the south-east corner, reading "WB1799" and "RB1799". The building is four bays wide and two storeys high. It has a hipped tiled roof with dentilled eaves. The windows are box sash windows, each with a single central vertical glazing bar. A doorway located in the third bay has been converted into a window. The end stacks have been altered. The ground floor has four windows, while the first floor has three.
Local climate
Rectory Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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