Shepherd Cottage and Cottage to the North is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 2001. Cottage.
Shepherd Cottage and Cottage to the North
- WRENN ID
- winding-moat-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 2001
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Shepherd Cottage and Cottage to the North, Jordans Lane, Chalfont St. Giles
- OS grid reference
- SU 974 914
- Coordinates
- 51.61301, -0.59328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shepherd Cottage and the cottage to the north are a pair of attached cottages built between 1920 and 1923, designed by Fred Rowntree for the Quaker Trust. These cottages were originally intended as workers' housing. They feature brick walls, tile roofs, and wooden windows, including both sashes and casements.
The cottages have a plan that includes a projecting bay at the north end, with entrances along the long elevation. The facade has a pitched roof that is hipped at the south end, covering the first floor and featuring a dormer. There is a central gabled bay with a window and a two-storey projecting gabled bay at the north end. Prominent chimneys are located at the roof ridge. The windows throughout are wood flush-framed, multi-paned sashes and casements, with brick headers made of vertically placed bricks at the gables.
Although the interior was not inspected, it is believed to be plain, reflecting their original use as workers' cottages. The cottages are situated on the main road leading into Jordans, near the lane entrance to the 1919 Village Green.
These cottages were part of the planned community of Jordans, designed as an ideal living space for Quakers, with construction beginning in 1919 based on Rowntree's designs from 1916. This terrace contributes to the group value of the historically significant Jordans village and represents a range of mostly unaltered and well-designed workers' housing.
Local climate
Shepherd Cottage and Cottage to the North 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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