The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1983. A C18 House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- small-chalk-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Main Street, Akeley, MK18 5HW
- OS grid reference
- SP 707 376
- Coordinates
- 52.03277, -0.9704
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of chequer brick, featuring a brick band course and plinth, with some stone at the base. The roof is made of old tiles, and there is a brick stack located between the left-hand bays. The building has two storeys and three bays. The windows are 19th-century casements with timber lintels, arranged as paired in the left-hand bay and as a three-light window in the centre and right bays. The right-hand ground floor opening has been blocked, and the entrance is located at the rear.
Local climate
The 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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