Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1955. A C18 House. 2 related planning applications.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-eave-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oak Cottage, Wooburn, HP10 0PW
- OS grid reference
- SU 909 877
- Coordinates
- 51.58114, -0.68886
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It is constructed of whitewashed brick and features dentil eaves and a hipped old tile roof. A brick chimney with a cogged cap is located at the rear. The building has two storeys and two bays. The ground floor windows are 20th-century three-light leaded casements with segmental heads. To the left, there is an old two-panelled door that has an inserted 20th-century glazed panel, framed by a wooden architrave with a segmental head and a flat wooden hood above. At the rear, there is a small gabled wing.
Local climate
Oak Cottage 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 86% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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 2017
- 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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