Abbot's Place Herons Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. Stable block, houses. 2 related planning applications.
Abbot's Place Herons Cottage
- WRENN ID
- small-gargoyle-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1987
- Type
- Stable block, houses
- Address
- Abbot's Place Herons Cottage, Ferry Lane, Medmenham, SL7 2EZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 806 838
- Coordinates
- 51.5481, -0.83777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbot's Place and Herons Cottage is a former stable block that has been converted into two houses, dating from around 1900 and altered since then. The building is constructed of red brick with a plain tile roof and features brick chimneys with 'V' pilasters and off-set heads. It has a U-shaped plan, with the main range consisting of one and a half storeys and single-storey wings. The windows and door surrounds are made of stone mullions, and there are four semi-dormers with cornices and three-light leaded casements in wooden frames. The upper storey of the central bay is half-timbered, jettied, and gabled, featuring a similar casement. The front gables of the side wings include canted wooden bay windows with leaded lights and blind lunettes that have keyed stone surrounds. A wall across the front has various piers. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Abbot's Place Herons 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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