Elm Cottages and Outbuilding Adjoining Number 5 is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1982. Cottages and outbuilding.

Elm Cottages and Outbuilding Adjoining Number 5

WRENN ID
dim-kitchen-violet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 March 1982
Type
Cottages and outbuilding
OS grid reference
SU 931 948
Coordinates
51.64508, -0.65466
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Elm Cottages, consisting of Nos 3, 4, and 5, along with an adjoining outbuilding, are 16th century timber-framed structures located in Penn The Green. The cottages are two storeys high, rendered, and altered, featuring a three-bay layout with a large old brick stack situated between Nos 4 and 5. Inside, there are chamfered brick elliptical arches on both floors and casement windows. The cottages have old tile roofs, and there is a timber-framed outbuilding that extends at right angles from No 5. Modern additions have been made to the front of Nos 3 and 4. The interior retains timber framing with fragments of original painted decoration, and large floor joists in No 3 suggest there may have been an open hall bay in No 4.

Local climate

Elm Cottages and Outbuilding Adjoining Number 5 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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