Bittersweet Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1984. House.
Bittersweet Cottage
- WRENN ID
- seventh-cloister-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bittersweet Cottage, Main Street, Preston Bissett
- OS grid reference
- SP 657 297
- Coordinates
- 51.96266, -1.04381
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bittersweet Cottage is a house dated 1779 AD, located on the east side of Main Street in Preston Bissett. The building is constructed of colourwashed rubble stone, with render on the left gable, and features a thatched roof with flanking brick chimneys. It stands at 2½ storeys tall and has three bays. The outer bays on the ground floor have 4-pane sash windows with louvred shutters, while the first floor features paired barred casements and a small 4-light barred casement in the centre, also under the thatch. The central entrance has a modern ledged door. There is a 19th to 20th-century extension on the right with an asbestos roof and garage entry, which is not considered of special interest.
Local climate
Bittersweet 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 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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