The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-shingle-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Soulbury, LU7 0DN
- OS grid reference
- SP 870 273
- Coordinates
- 51.93828, -0.73555
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, which has been altered and extended in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with whitewashed roughcast infill and a thatched roof that is half-hipped to the left, with a brick chimney situated between the left bays. The building is 1½ storeys high and consists of three bays. The windows are irregular 20th-century leaded casements, with two in the thatch on the left bays, each containing two lights. To the left, there is a 20th-century single-storey extension made of whitewashed render, partly half-timbered, with a pantile roof. This extension has similar windows and a 20th-century door to the right. Additionally, there is a 20th-century concrete arch in an Egyptian style attached to the front right corner of the house. Inside, the cottage features chamfered spine beams and two winder staircases aligned with the chimney.
Local climate
The Old Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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