Kings Head Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. A Early Modern Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Kings Head Cottage

WRENN ID
silent-string-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1984
Type
Cottage
Period
Early Modern
Address
Kings Head Cottage, Slapton, LU7 0QR
OS grid reference
SP 924 192
Coordinates
51.86454, -0.65905
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

King's Head Cottage is a small house dating from the 17th century, which has been altered over time. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick infill on the first floor, while the ground floor and most of the bay closest to the road have been rebuilt in brick and whitewashed. The cottage has a half-hipped thatch roof and a central brick chimney that has been rebuilt. It is 1½ storeys tall and consists of two bays. The windows are wooden casements with single horizontal glazing bars, with a three-light window on the left side of the ground floor and a two-light window on the right side, both set in thatch. There is a central lobby entry with a 20th-century door. To the left end, there is a tiled lean-to with a small brick chimney.

Local climate

Kings Head 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 2 transactions since 2002
  • 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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