Jessamine House is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1983. House. 7 related planning applications.
Jessamine House
- WRENN ID
- weathered-screen-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Jessamine House, 77, High Street, Buckden, PE19 5TA
- OS grid reference
- TL 191 678
- Coordinates
- 52.29599, -0.25355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Jessamine House is an 18th-century building located on Buckden High Street. It features five bays, with an additional bay to the north that is a 19th-century addition or rebuild. The house is two storeys high and constructed of red brick, topped with plain tile roofs and an end stack to the south. It has a dentil brick eaves cornice and a rubbed brick band between the floors. The windows are hung sash with glazing bars, set beneath gauged brick arches. The central entrance boasts a six-panelled door with a round-headed fanlight and architrave, dating from the early 19th century. There is also a 19th-century back range, which is red brick and plain tiled.
Local climate
Jessamine House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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 2009
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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