Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1980. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-sentry-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Cottage, Wexham Street, Stoke Poges, SL3 6NB
- OS grid reference
- SU 989 834
- Coordinates
- 51.5414, -0.57446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Cottage is a building from the 17th or 18th century located on Wexham Street in Stoke Poges. It is constructed of brick, with the returns pebbledashed, and features an old tile mansard roof. The cottage has two storeys plus an attic and is divided into three bays. On the ground floor, there is a central modern brick porch flanked by two 2-light windows with segmental heads. A brick band runs along the first floor level, which has a central blank window and two additional 2-light windows. The attic includes two dormer windows in the roof, and all windows are casements with glazing bars. To the left of the main building, there is a one-storeyed modern extension that is weather boarded and has an old tile roof.
Local climate
Old Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings