Overstroud Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1984. Cottage.

Overstroud Cottage

WRENN ID
other-portal-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 July 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Overstroud Cottage, Great Missenden
OS grid reference
SP 899 013
Coordinates
51.70358, -0.69974
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Overstroud Cottage is an early 19th-century building designed in a "gothic" style. It features colourwashed rendering and a slate roof, and is two storeys tall. The front has three diamond leaded 2-light pointed arched windows with Y tracery, each with dripmoulds that have mask label stops. The central doorway has a 4-centred arch and an ogee dripmould. There is a wing set back on the right side, which has one similar window on the first floor, and a single storey wing on the left.

Local climate

Overstroud Cottage 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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