The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- roaming-chalk-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Main Street, Hoggeston, MK18 3LJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 807 251
- Coordinates
- 51.91871, -0.82754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that was altered in the 19th century. It features timber framing at the rear, right gable, and central truss. The right gable has whitewashed brick on the ground floor and rough plaster above the frame. The front has been rebuilt in whitewashed brick. The roof is half-hipped thatch with a brick chimney on the left side. The building has one and a half storeys and consists of one and a half bays. The full bay on the left has leaded casements, which are three-light with an altered segmental head on the ground floor, paired in thatch. There is a board door in a moulded wooden frame with an altered segmental head to the right. The half bay on the right has a tiled lean-to projection that was formerly a shop, featuring a three-light barred wooden casement around the left corner. At the rear, there is a 19th to 20th-century tiled lean-to.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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