Townsend Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. Small house. 1 related planning application.
Townsend Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-pier-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- Small house
- Address
- Townsend Cottage, 8, Quainton, HP22 4BB
- OS grid reference
- SP 742 202
- Coordinates
- 51.87582, -0.92343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townsend Cottage is a small house dating to the 17th century, with alterations made since. The right-hand bay has a timber frame with diagonal braces and whitewashed brick infill, while the left-hand bay has been recased in whitewashed brick. The roof is thatched, has been rebuilt, and includes a central brick chimney. The building is 1½ storeys high and two bays wide. There are 20th-century leaded windows on the ground floor; the left bay has French doors and a bay window, and the right bay has a three-light casement. The upper floor has an old paired leaded casement in the thatch to the right, an old small leaded light to the centre below the eaves, and a 20th-century paired leaded casement partly in the thatch to the left. A central 20th-century door has a thatched hood supported on carved wooden brackets. A small, single-storey bay set back to the left is half-timbered and has a tiled roof.
Local climate
Townsend 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 2009
- 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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