First and Second Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

First and Second Cottages

WRENN ID
winding-tin-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
First and Second Cottages, Scotts Lane, Adstock
OS grid reference
SP 736 301
Coordinates
51.96461, -0.92972
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

First and Second Cottages are a pair of cottages located in Adstock, dating from the 17th century and later. The first cottage features a timber frame with whitewashed brick infill and some rendered areas, topped with a thatched roof and a stack on the left gable. It is one-and-a-half storeys high with two bays, and has paired 19th-century wooden casement windows. The upper storey has thatch eyebrows, and there is a central boarded door. To the left, there is a 19th-century brick extension with a slate roof.

The second cottage, built in the late 18th to early 19th century, is constructed of brick. It has a thatched roof on the left side and a tiled roof on the right, with brick stacks located at the centre and the right-hand gable. This cottage is two storeys high with two bays, featuring paired 20th-century barred casements, including a three-light window on the upper right. There is a boarded door to the left, set within a timber gabled porch, and a single-storey brick extension to the right with a tiled roof.

Local climate

First and Second Cottages 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.

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