Old School Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. School.
Old School Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-cellar-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- School
- Address
- Old School Cottage, Village Lane, Hedgerley
- OS grid reference
- SU 969 873
- Coordinates
- 51.57666, -0.6022
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old School Cottage is a former school building dated 1844, as indicated by a plaque above the door on the left. It is constructed of red brick with blue headers and features an old tile roof. The building is single-storey and has three gables on the road front, each adorned with barge-boards. Each gable contains three lancet windows. On the right-hand side of the building, there is another date plaque from 1869, which is styled identically to the 1844 plaque.
Local climate
Old School 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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