Magpie Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. A Post-Medieval Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Magpie Cottage
- WRENN ID
- weathered-chimney-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Magpie Cottage, Oving, HP22 4HN
- OS grid reference
- SP 781 213
- Coordinates
- 51.88498, -0.86524
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century house located in the village of Oving. The house is timber-framed with whitewashed brick infill and a blackened rubble stone plinth. It has a thatched roof, half-hipped to the right, with brick chimneys set into the gables and between the left bays. The house is 1½ storeys high and consists of three bays. There are three-light leaded casement windows, some retaining their original fittings. The first-floor windows are positioned irregularly; the leftmost window is below the eaves, the central window is within the thatch, and the rightmost window is within a gabled dormer with a tiled surround. A 20th-century door is situated between the right bays. An outbuilding attached to the right is constructed of whitewashed rubble stone and has a tiled roof, featuring a 20th-century door. The interior features chamfered spine beams, some with run-out stops, and curved braces.
Local climate
Magpie 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- 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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