Blossom Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Blossom Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-forge-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blossom Cottage, Askett Lane, Princes Risborough, HP27 9LU
- OS grid reference
- SP 815 050
- Coordinates
- 51.73826, -0.82022
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blossom Cottage is a 17th-century house located on Ascott Lane in Princes Risborough. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick infill and an old tiled roof, along with rebuilt brick chimneys on either side. The cottage has one storey and an attic, comprising two bays. The irregular ground floor includes a two-light barred wooden casement window on the left, a similar three-light window on the right, and single wooden and leaded lights in the center. There is a paired barred wooden casement window in the eaves-line dormer to the right. A 20th-century door is situated to the right within a 20th-century brick and timber gabled porch. The cottage also has whitewashed brick extensions on either side, each with one storey and one bay, featuring 20th-century casement windows. Additionally, there is a conservatory at the rear of the left bay.
Local climate
Blossom 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
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