Close Cottage the Pound is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1984. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Close Cottage the Pound
- WRENN ID
- waiting-lancet-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Close Cottage the Pound, Church Lane, Great Missenden, HP16 0BA
- OS grid reference
- SP 897 011
- Coordinates
- 51.7019, -0.70215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Close Cottage, located on Church Lane in Great Missenden, is a 17th-century building that was refronted in 18th-century brick. It features a first-floor band and has four horizontal sliding sash windows on each floor, along with two doors; the ground floor openings have segmental arches. The cottage has an old tile roof and a central brick stack. To the left, there is an addition that includes a sash window on the ground floor and a modern casement window on the first floor. The gable wall is constructed of flint.
Local climate
Close Cottage the Pound 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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