Broomstick Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Broomstick Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-tracery-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Broomstick Cottage, High Street, Edlesborough, LU6 2HS
- OS grid reference
- SP 975 198
- Coordinates
- 51.86849, -0.58474
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Broomstick Cottage is a small house dating from the late 17th to 18th century, with some alterations. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick infill, while the southwest gable is encased in red brick from the 20th century. The cottage has a thatched roof and a central brick chimney. It is 1 ½ storeys high and consists of 2 bays. The front is mostly hidden by No. 8 but includes a horizontal sliding sash window on the ground floor to the left, a 19th-century paired wooden casement window above, and a boarded door. The center has a single light in a blocked doorway located in a small alley. There is a single-storey flat-roofed extension to the left. The rear of the cottage features barred wooden casements, one set in thatch, and a 20th-century lean-to on the right.
Local climate
Broomstick 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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