Acorn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1982. House.
Acorn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- night-kitchen-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Acorn Cottage, 43, Sheep Street, Winslow
- OS grid reference
- SP 773 275
- Coordinates
- 51.94087, -0.87681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Acorn Cottage is a small house dating from the 17th century. The front features whitewashed render with a projecting rendered plinth and an exposed wall plate, while the right gable is made of brick. The rear is constructed with a timber frame and whitewashed plaster infill. The cottage has a thatched roof with a central brick chimney stack. It stands at one and a half storeys and consists of two bays. The windows are three-light barred wooden casements, with those on the ground floor set in canted oriels and first-floor windows positioned under thatch eyebrows. The entrance is a central ledged door. There is a 20th-century extension at the rear.
Local climate
Acorn Cottage 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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