Peters Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1990. House. 1 related planning application.
Peters Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-landing-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Peters Cottage, 91, Littleworth Road, Downley, HP13 5XA
- OS grid reference
- SU 852 949
- Coordinates
- 51.64722, -0.76898
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Peters Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with a plaster date of 1675. It has undergone alterations, particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries. The exterior is constructed of flint with brick bands, quoins, and surrounds to the openings, topped with a plain tile roof and featuring a brick stack. The building is a single cell, likely originally part of a larger structure, and has two storeys with an attic and one bay.
The cottage has a plinth with an offset top. The doorway on the right has a blocked header brick cambered arch and a late 20th-century window above it. A late 20th-century gabled porch is located on the left, and there are mid-20th-century metal-framed windows on each floor at the centre. The exterior also features a stepped platt band and an eaves band, with an end stack on the right. The rear has 20th-century extensions that are not of special interest.
Inside, the ground floor room includes a large brick fireplace with a timber bressumer, which formerly had a bread oven, and a chamfered spine beam with lambs tongue stops, along with old joists. The first floor has similar beams, and there is wall plaster dated 1675 with the initials IPH. In the attic, there are purlins and a collar.
Local climate
Peters Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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