Bracken Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1981. House. 2 related planning applications.
Bracken Cottage
- WRENN ID
- small-terrace-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bracken Cottage, 8, Chearsley Road, Long Crendon, HP18 9BT
- OS grid reference
- SP 695 088
- Coordinates
- 51.77442, -0.99385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bracken Cottage is a building dating from the 17th to 18th century. It is two storeys high and constructed of witchert, which is rendered. The cottage features a thatched roof with three chimneys. The entrance door is located to the left of centre, accompanied by a modern metal window on the left side. There are two sash windows to the left and one to the right of the door. The upper floor has four small two-light casement windows, with indents in the eaves above them. To the right, there is a single bay addition that has one window and a tiled roof. On the left side, there is a flat-roofed garage.
Local climate
Bracken Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- 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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