Maple Cottage and Faircot is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Maple Cottage and Faircot
- WRENN ID
- pale-flint-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Maple Cottage and Faircot, 127 and 129, White Lion Road, Amersham, HP7 9JY
- OS grid reference
- SU 980 978
- Coordinates
- 51.67099, -0.58325
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Maple Cottage and Faircot are a pair of early 19th century red brick cottages located on the south side of White Lion Road in Amersham. They feature an old half-hipped tile roof with two linked gables at the center and a central chimney. The cottages are two storeys tall with an attic. Each cottage has two two-storey canted bay windows that have hipped old tile roofs and 4-light casements. There are also two 2-light attic windows with leaded glazing. Faircot has a modern wooden porch, while Maple Cottage includes a 1-storey lean-to with a modern door and window beneath a tiled entice roof.
Local climate
Maple Cottage and Faircot 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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 — 6 transactions since 1997
- 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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