Bury Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Bury Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-cinder-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bury Cottage, London Road West, Amersham, HP7 0EZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 961 971
- Coordinates
- 51.66501, -0.61127
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bury Cottage is a building from the 17th century or earlier, which has been altered. The exterior features a mix of rendered surfaces, brick, and flint, all painted, with an old tiled roof. The cottage has two gables facing the road, both adorned with ornamental bargeboards, although the right-hand gable is set back. There is a door on the left side and a modern casement window on the right. The first floor has two openings, with a modern casement window on the left and a blocked opening on the right. The left gable includes one sash window on the first floor. On the east elevation, there are three sash windows on the first floor. The cottage has historical associations with local Protestant martyrs.
Local climate
Bury 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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 2016
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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