Sumach Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.

Sumach Cottage

WRENN ID
guardian-pediment-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1985
Type
House
Address
Sumach Cottage, Princes Risborough, HP27 9LT
OS grid reference
SP 815 051
Coordinates
51.73921, -0.82086
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sumach Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th to early 18th century, with two bays on the right side and an extension of two bays to the left from the early 19th century. The right bays feature a timber frame with whitewashed brick and plaster infill, topped with a thatched roof and a brick chimney on the left. The left bays are constructed of whitewashed brick with some flint, covered by an old tile roof and a central brick chimney. The house is two storeys high. The right bays have 20th-century three-light barred wooden casements, while the left bays have paired wooden casements with single horizontal glazing bars and segmental heads on the first floor. There is a similar fixed window on the ground floor to the right and a single barred wooden light immediately to the left of the central flush-panelled door.

Local climate

Sumach 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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