Garden Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. Pair of houses.
Garden Cottages
- WRENN ID
- pale-wattle-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Address
- Garden Cottages, 1 and 2, Church Road, Oving
- OS grid reference
- SP 783 213
- Coordinates
- 51.88482, -0.86233
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden Cottages is a pair of houses located on Oving Church Road. Number 2 dates from the mid to late 18th century and has been altered. The building is constructed of red and vitreous brick, featuring red brick quoins and window surrounds, a first-floor band course, and moulded eaves. The right end has been rebuilt in the 20th century. It has an old tile roof with a large 18th-century brick chimney on the left and a smaller chimney on the right. The house is two storeys high with two bays. The sash windows have been altered, with the ground floor left window having a segmental head. The ground floor right features a 20th-century bay window with a hipped tile roof that extends to form a hood over the central door. The door is four-panelled and has a rectangular fanlight above, along with a blind window panel.
Attached to the left is No. 1, which is made of coursed rubble stone and brick. The left bay has 18th-century brick with a band course on the ground floor and 19th-century brick above. It has a 20th-century tile roof and a brick chimney on the left. This house is also two storeys high with two bays, featuring irregular barred wooden casements and a door with a flat hood supported by shaped wooden brackets. There is a single-storey extension from the 19th to 20th century on the left.
Local climate
Garden Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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