Spring Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. House. 1 related planning application.

Spring Cottage

WRENN ID
stranded-stone-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1984
Type
House
Address
Spring Cottage, Main Street, Mursley, MK17 0RT
OS grid reference
SP 818 283
Coordinates
51.9477, -0.81017
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Spring Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with extensions and partial rebuilding in the 19th century. The original two bays feature whitewashed render, likely over a timber frame, and a whitewashed rubble stone plinth, while the right bay is constructed of whitewashed brick. The thatched roof is complemented by a thin brick chimney stack with a pilaster between the right-hand bays. The building is 1½ storeys high and consists of three bays. The ground floor of the right-hand bay has a bow window with barred casements, while the other bays have 19th-century three-light casements. The first-floor windows are adorned with thatch eyebrows, and all windows have scalloped lead fringes below the sills. The ground floor windows also feature ornamental wooden blind boxes.

A half-glazed door is located between the left-hand bays, framed by a 19th-century wooden surround with a dentilled pediment supported by cut brackets with guttae. It has a gabled porch with lattice sides, a tiled roof, and ornamental bargeboards. The right gable displays a stone tablet dated H.T. 1693, carved with oak leaves and a hare. To the left, there is a large extension built around 1900, made of whitewashed rough cast with a tiled roof and tile-hanging on the left gable. This extension is two storeys high and consists of three bays, featuring barred wooden casements, a square projection on the ground floor left, and an elaborate door with a hood over flanking windows to the right.

Local climate

Spring Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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