20, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
20, High Street
- WRENN ID
- high-iron-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1954
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 20, High Street, West Wycombe, HP14 3AB
- OS grid reference
- SU 830 946
- Coordinates
- 51.64457, -0.80172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 20 on High Street is a cottage with an 18th-century front, constructed of colour-washed brick and topped with an old tiled roof. It stands two storeys high. The ground floor features one flush three-light casement window, while the first floor has one three-light and one two-light casement window. All windows are flush set with wooden mullions and glazing bars, except for the lattice upper floor casement on the right. The ground floor window and the two-panel door are adorned with cantered relieving arches. There is a right-hand doorway that was formerly blocked, which has a cut bracketed hood. A brick band runs along the first floor, and there is a panelled dark red brick chimney stack with segmental arches and key blocks. This cottage is part of a group that includes adjacent buildings such as Nos 2 to 5, Nos 7 to 9, The Swan Public House, West Wycombe Branch County Library, Nos 10 to 13, No 15, Black Boy Cottage, The George and Dragon Inn, and Nos 16 to 23.
Local climate
20, High Street 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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- 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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