42, Church Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. Cottage.

42, Church Lane

WRENN ID
watchful-string-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 January 1954
Type
Cottage
Address
42, Church Lane, West Wycombe
OS grid reference
SU 830 947
Coordinates
51.64509, -0.80176
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

42 Church Lane is an 18th-century cottage made of grey brick with red brick detailing and an old tiled roof. The building has two storeys and features two flush-set double-hung sash windows with 19th-century glazing, and flat arches on the ground floor. There is a central dummy window on the first floor. The entrance has a six-fielded panelled door within an architrave surround, topped by a cut bracketed hood. A corbelled brick cornice and one gabled dormer complete the structure. This cottage is part of a group that includes No 39A, Fern Cottage, No 39, 40A, 40, 41, 41A, 42A, 43, 44, and the Christadelphian Chapel.

Local climate

42, Church Lane 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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