Corner Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Corner Cottage
- WRENN ID
- leaning-gable-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Corner Cottage, Main Street, Adstock, MK18 2HT
- OS grid reference
- SP 735 299
- Coordinates
- 51.96353, -0.93107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Corner Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on the east side of Main Street, Adstock. The building is constructed of whitewashed roughcast with a thatched roof. There are stacks to the gables and to the left of centre, with the right-hand stack being external. The right-hand bays feature a band course and a buttress to the front corner. The cottage is one-and-a-half storeys tall and has three bays. The right-hand bays have 19th-century wooden casement windows; the ground floor has 3-light windows, while the windows in the thatch are paired. A four-panelled door is set within a 19th-century whitewashed brick porch, which also contains a single casement window to the right.
Local climate
Corner 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 13 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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