Plum Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Plum Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-footing-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Plum Tree Cottage, the College, Marsh Gibbon, OX27 0HN
- OS grid reference
- SP 647 233
- Coordinates
- 51.90449, -1.05967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Plum Tree Cottage is a house that was formerly two cottages, dated 1770 on a tablet located by the upper left window. The building is constructed of rubble stone with timber lintels over the openings and features a thatched roof with brick stacks at the gables and center. It has two storeys and four irregular bays. The ground floor has five 20th-century paired barred wooden casements, with the second from the left being in a former doorway, while the first floor has four casements. There is a ledged board door to the left of the right-hand cottage and a fire insurance plaque situated between the upper right-hand windows. To the right, there is a single-storey brick extension with a tiled roof.
Local climate
Plum Tree Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- 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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