The Croft is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1983. Cottage.
The Croft
- WRENN ID
- lost-truss-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Croft, Chapel Lane, Thornborough
- OS grid reference
- SP 745 337
- Coordinates
- 51.99703, -0.91562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Croft is a former row of cottages that has been converted into a single house, dating from the early 19th century. The building is constructed from coursed rubble stone, featuring dressed stone voussoirs and keyblocks above flat window heads. It has a slate roof and two chimney stacks. The structure is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with 3-light leaded casements. A central modern door is set within a gabled brick porch. The left-hand bay contains a 2-light leaded casement in a blocked doorway to the right.
To the left, there is a two-storey brick extension, which has a chequered pattern on the first floor, a slate roof, dentilled eaves, and a stack on the right. The ground floor features garage doors and a paired leaded casement, while the first floor has two similar 3-light casements with cambered heads. The gable includes a dovecote with projecting ledges of brick in a roughly pedimental shape.
Local climate
The Croft 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings