Old Barn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Old Barn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-cobble-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Barn Cottage, Church Road, Little Marlow, SL7 3RZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 873 880
- Coordinates
- 51.58435, -0.74101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Barn Cottage is a house with an attached barn, partially converted into a flat, dating to the 18th century with early 19th-century additions, and incorporating elements of a 17th- to early 18th-century building. The construction is a mix of colourwashed flint and brick, with timber framing to the front of the left bay and half-timbering to the gable of the third bay. The roof is tiled, with dentil eaves on the central bay of the house, and there are brick chimneys. The house is two storeys high and has three bays; the outer bays are gabled, with the centre bay having a hipped roof to the right. The left bay has a rebuilt front with a bow window to the left (formerly a shop window), a two-light leaded casement to the ground floor right, and a 20th-century sash and round window to the first floor. A first-floor band course runs along the left side, with a small, blocked square opening to the first floor. The centre bay features a three-light leaded oriel window on the ground floor, a paired wooden casement above, and a small paired leaded casement above a 20th-century door with a gabled porch. The right bay retains an original paired leaded casement to the ground floor, with a later three-light leaded casement above. The barn to the right has a weatherboarded gable and 20th-century cross windows. Inside the left wing, some original timber framing remains, including a heavy, stop-chamfered cross beam with one end on a bracket.
Local climate
Old Barn Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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