Acacia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Acacia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-remnant-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- Acacia Cottage, 121, High Street, Amersham, HP7 0DY
- OS grid reference
- SU 955 974
- Coordinates
- 51.6675, -0.62017
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Acacia Cottage, numbers 121, 123 and 125, is a 17th-century building with alterations from the 18th century, situated on the north side of Amersham High Street. The building is constructed of red and grey brick with an old tile roof and a substantial brick stack serving number 125, incorporating dentil brick eaves. It is two storeys in height. Number 121 features a door on the right-hand side, topped by a small hood supported by brackets. Each floor has a double-hung sash window. Number 123 has a modern door and a three-light casement window on each floor. Number 125 has a door within a more recent opening on the right, with two ground floor casement windows; the left-hand one is within the original doorway. The first floor has a three-light casement window. All ground floor openings are arched segmentally, with the exception of the door at number 125. The building is of group value, forming part of a cohesive terrace.
Local climate
Acacia 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction 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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