Cowley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Cowley Farmhouse

WRENN ID
inner-merlon-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Cowley Farmhouse, Preston Bissett, MK18 4DR
OS grid reference
SP 664 281
Coordinates
51.94798, -1.03532
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cowley Farmhouse is a late 17th-century house that has been altered over time. The house's timber frame is now covered with planking in the rear gable wall, while the rest of the exterior is brick with dentilled eaves. It has an old tile roof and a central chimney stack constructed of thin brick, featuring two rectangular shafts with pilasters on either side and an offset head. The house is arranged in a "T" shape. It has two storeys and an attic.

The south-eastern front has a gabled cross wing projecting to the left. The gable wall shows some stone quoins at the base on the right side. It has a 19th-century 3-light casement window under a cambered brick head on the first floor, a matching 20th-century casement with a flat head on the ground floor, and a 2-light casement window to the attic with a Phoenix fire insurance plaque below. A lean-to is situated in line with the chimney. The right-hand bay includes 19th-century 3-light casement windows, some of which are partially in the roof, and a half-glazed door within a wire porch on the right. A lean-to garage is located on the right. The south-western front features similar casement windows and a 6-panelled door with a rectangular barred fanlight and a flat wooden hood supported on cut brackets. Leaded casement windows are present on the rear of the building.

Local climate

Cowley Farmhouse 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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
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