Thimble Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1974. House.
Thimble Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solemn-pavement-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thimble Cottage, 50, West Street, Marlow
- OS grid reference
- SU 847 864
- Coordinates
- 51.57099, -0.77859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thimble Cottage, located at No 50 on West Street, is a 17th-century building. It has two storeys and features a timber frame with a rendered brick front. There is a string course at the first-floor level and a small bracketed cornice. The roof is covered with old tiles. The cottage has two irregular casement windows and a door located at the side. Thimble Cottage is part of a group that includes No 36 and Nos 42 to 50 (even) along with Queen Cottage.
Local climate
Thimble 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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