Common Ley is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1983. House.
Common Ley
- WRENN ID
- grey-chimney-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Common Ley, Cholesbury, Cholesbury-Cum-St. Leonards
- OS grid reference
- SP 934 069
- Coordinates
- 51.75377, -0.64785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Common Ley is a small house that dates back to the 17th century and has been altered and extended over time. It features a timber frame with a red brick ground floor and infilling, topped by an old tile roof. The building has two storeys, with a modern gabled porch and two modern leaded casement windows on the ground floor. The first floor includes a gabled dormer and two half dormers with swept roofs, all fitted with modern casement windows.
Local climate
Common Ley 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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