Woodpeckers is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. A C17 House.
Woodpeckers
- WRENN ID
- night-belfry-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Woodpeckers, 25, High Street, Long Crendon
- OS grid reference
- SP 696 088
- Coordinates
- 51.77405, -0.99202
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodpeckers, formerly known as Ethelstone Cottage, is a 17th-century building that may incorporate earlier elements. It stands two storeys tall and is constructed of colour washed coursed rubble. The roof is thatched, hipped, and sweeps down towards Burts Lane. The ground floor features three modern leaded casement windows, with the central one located in what was previously a doorway. On the first floor, there are two leaded casements above a central stack.
At the rear, there is a one-storey and attic wing, also made of colour washed rubble, with an ammonite inset at the back. This wing has a thatched roof with a half hipped gable and a three-light casement window on the first floor. There are three small windows on the ground floor, two of which have leaded glazing. Inside, the rear wing contains three trusses that may represent the upper parts of late crucks.
Local climate
Woodpeckers 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 57% 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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