Quarry Cottage the Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. Cottage, former school.
Quarry Cottage the Old School
- WRENN ID
- cold-gutter-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1987
- Type
- Cottage, former school
- Address
- Quarry Cottage the Old School, Henley Road, Medmenham
- OS grid reference
- SU 804 845
- Coordinates
- 51.55407, -0.84071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Quarry Cottage and The Old School is a cottage and former school located on Henley Road in Medmenham. The cottage dates from the late 18th century and is constructed of flint and chalk with brick dressings and a tiled roof. It has a small brick chimney on the right side, is two storeys tall, and features two bays. The first floor has paired 20th-century metal casement windows that are top-hung, while the ground floor has a window in a blocked doorway with an arched head and a 20th-century door to the left. The school, built in 1830, is made of brick and has a later central buttress and a tiled roof. It is a single storey with two bays and features three-light leaded windows with segmental heads. The entrance to the school is accessed through the village hall, which was constructed in 1936 and projects to the right. The buildings were built in a chalk quarry and are included for their group value.
Local climate
Quarry Cottage the Old School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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