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

Diamond Cottage

WRENN ID
narrow-arch-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 January 1986
Type
House
Address
Diamond Cottage, Moor Lane, Downley
OS grid reference
SU 848 952
Coordinates
51.6496, -0.77515
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Diamond Cottage is a house dated 1853, as indicated by a wooden tablet. It is constructed of flint with brick dressings and features a hipped slate roof with flanking brick chimneys. The building has two storeys and two bays. The windows are 4-pane sashes with architrave frames, and the lower right window has a segmental head. The left bay on the ground floor contains a late 19th to early 20th century shop window with three transomed lights and a moulded wooden cornice. There is a central 20th-century door with a blocked semi-circular fanlight set in a bonded brick arch. A date tablet is located in the centre of the first floor, surrounded by a diaper pattern edged with brick and a double row of bottle ends.

Local climate

Diamond Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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