The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1983. House.

The Old Cottage

WRENN ID
buried-cinder-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 November 1983
Type
House
Address
The Old Cottage, the Lee
OS grid reference
SP 899 042
Coordinates
51.73017, -0.69834
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Cottage is a small house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It has a timber frame that has been recased in 18th-century brick and features an old tile roof. The building consists of four bays and is two storeys high, with eaves that break over gabled first-floor windows. The ground floor has paired casements with segmental arches, and there is a central eight-panel door. The right end stacks are made of timber posts that have been rendered over.

Local climate

The Old Cottage 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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