8 and 9, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. A C18 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
8 and 9, High Street
- WRENN ID
- salt-mullion-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1954
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 8 and 9, High Street, West Wycombe, HP14 3AE
- OS grid reference
- SU 828 946
- Coordinates
- 51.6445, -0.80359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 8 and 9 on High Street are a pair of cottages dating from the 18th century. They are built from colour-washed brick and feature an old tile roof. The cottages are one storey high with attics and have three flush three-light wood mullion casement windows, each topped with cambered relieving arches. The attics include gabled half dormers. There are two doors, each with four flush panels and cambered relieving arches. These cottages are part of a group that includes adjoining outbuildings, other consecutive numbered houses, The Swan Public House, the West Wycombe Branch County Library, and The George and Dragon Inn, among others.
Local climate
8 and 9, High Street 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 84% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- 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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