Willowvale Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1978. House.
Willowvale Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-crypt-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Willowvale Cottage, 37, West Street, Steeple Claydon
- OS grid reference
- SP 695 268
- Coordinates
- 51.93611, -0.99047
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willowvale Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century. It is timber framed with large rectangular panels of whitewashed brick infill and features a thatched roof with brick stacks at the gables and center. The cottage has two storeys and four bays. It includes barred wooden casements, with paired windows in the left-hand bays on the ground floor and three first-floor windows, as well as a three-light window in the right-hand bays on the ground floor. The central entrance has a 20th-century six-panel door set in a reeded surround. To the right, there is an additional single-storey bay that has a three-light casement with an arched top under a hipped thatch roof.
Local climate
Willowvale 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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