Welby Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1981. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Welby Cottage
- WRENN ID
- high-outpost-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Welby Cottage, 2, Chilton Road, Long Crendon, HP18 9BU
- OS grid reference
- SP 695 089
- Coordinates
- 51.77506, -0.99375
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Welby Cottage is a building dating from the 17th to 18th century. It is a single storey with an attic, constructed from rubble stone, possibly witchert, and features colour washed rendering. The roof is thatched. The front has a ledged door on the left, a three-light casement window in the centre topped with a shallow wood pediment, and a two-light modern steel casement window on the right. At the rear, there is a modern addition made of rendered brick and thatch.
Local climate
Welby 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 1999
- 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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