1 and 2, Westfield Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1977. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

1 and 2, Westfield Cottages

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 October 1977
Type
Cottage
Address
1 and 2, Westfield Cottages, Medmenham, SL7 2HQ
OS grid reference
SU 798 846
Coordinates
51.55465, -0.84955
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A pair of semi-detached estate cottages dating to circa 1900, likely designed by Romaine Walker for Mr. Robert Hudson of Danesfield. The lower storey is built of red brick in English bond, featuring a dentil string course above the doors, and battered buttresses flank the front. The upper storey is rendered and colourwashed, topped with a half-hipped plain tile roof. A central brick chimney has an off-set cap.

The cottages are one storey and attic, with two bays each. The ground floor windows are 4-light casements with wooden glazing bars and leaded top-lights, having chamfered and off-set brick sills and stop-chamfered wooden lintels. The upper storey contains later 20th-century 3-light leaded casements set within gabled dormers, which are ornamented with richly carved and cusped bargeboards. The front doors are original, set within moulded brick surrounds, and are topped with semi-circular brick arches. Above these arches are painted terracotta tympana, made of local Medmenham ware; No. 1 depicts the gathering of firewood (representing January), and No. 2 shows a shepherd and his sheep (representing February). The doors retain their original brass handles and numbers. These cottages were originally part of a group of twelve.

Local climate

1 and 2, Westfield Cottages 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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