Barley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1973. House.
Barley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- far-rotunda-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Barley Cottage, Hambleden
- OS grid reference
- SU 797 902
- Coordinates
- 51.60545, -0.84994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barley Cottage is a house dating from the mid-18th century, with an earlier core. It is constructed of flint with brick dressings, featuring narrow bricks on the left bays. The cottage has 18th to 19th-century dentil eaves and an old tile roof, with a chimney made of narrow brick situated between the right bays. The building is L-shaped and has two storeys with a three-bay front. The windows include two and three-light leaded casements, some of which are from the 20th century, while the ground floor left openings have gauged heads. There is a five-light casement on the ground floor right, partially in a blocked doorway. A 20th-century door with Gothick leaded glazing is located between the left bays, also featuring a gauged head. To the left, there is a lean-to. The earlier rear section includes a small square light set in an offset and chamfered brick surround at the rear gable. The remaining rear section has a catslide extension and a 20th-century lobby that connects the house to a converted former outbuilding.
Local climate
Barley 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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