Buckley House and Thrae is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1958. House. 4 related planning applications.
Buckley House and Thrae
- WRENN ID
- knotted-attic-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- Buckley House and Thrae, Thicket Road, Houghton and Wyton, PE28 2BQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 282 721
- Coordinates
- 52.33263, -0.119
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Buckley House and Thrae is a 16th and 17th century rendered, timber-framed house located on the south side of Thicket Road in Houghton. The building features a continuous jetty and a two-bayed cross-wing on the right side. There is a stair turret at the angle of the main building and a rear kitchen range. The house is two storeys high with attics and has plain tile roofs. A ridge stack is adorned with a moulded, dentil brick cornice and three hexagonal shafts.
The property has ranges of three hung sash windows with glazing bars and moulded architraves on both floors. The main entry is aligned with the stack and features a panelled door, while there is a side entry in a modern two-storey wing to the left of the cross-wing. The earlier section of the building, to the right of the stack, has three chamfered jetty brackets. The joists in this section contrast with the slender joists in the left-hand side and the cross-wing, which includes a dragon post.
Inside, the main chamfered ceiling beams are supported by carved scroll brackets, and the dragon beam is stop-chamfered. There is an ovolo-moulded mullion for a two-light window in the cross-wing, and two inglenook hearths are present.
Local climate
Buckley House and Thrae 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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