21, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. Cottage.
21, High Street
- WRENN ID
- lost-gateway-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1954
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 21, High Street, West Wycombe
- OS grid reference
- SU 830 946
- Coordinates
- 51.64457, -0.80163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 21 on High Street is a 16th-century cottage that has been altered over time. It features a plaster exterior with a brick plinth and an old tiled roof. The building stands two storeys high and includes one double-hung sash window, with ground floor shutters and a cambered relieving arch above the window. A door hood is supported by moulded brackets. This cottage is listed for its group value, as it is part of a collection of significant buildings nearby, including Nos 2 to 5, Nos 7 to 9, The Swan Public House, West Wycombe Branch County Library, Nos 10 to 13, No 15, Black Boy Cottage, The George and Dragon Inn, and Nos 16 to 23.
Local climate
21, High Street 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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