The City is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1955. Pair of houses.
The City
- WRENN ID
- strange-casement-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1955
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Address
- The City, 1 and 2, West Lane, Bledlow-Cum-Saunderton
- OS grid reference
- SP 775 022
- Coordinates
- 51.71375, -0.8787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 1 and 2, The City, are a pair of houses dating from the 16th to 17th centuries, with some parts rebuilt in the 19th century. The section closest to the road is timber framed with brick infill, featuring a gable with rendered framing. The front has been partly rebuilt using thin brick and some 19th-century white brick. The old tile roof is half-hipped towards the road, and there is a chimney made of thin brick on the right side. The houses are two storeys high with two bays. The left bay includes paired barred wooden casements in the gable, a weatherboard lean-to, and a chimney at the front left, along with a 18th-century staircase projection made of red and vitreous brick, topped with a hipped roof and a small window. The right bay features paired barred wooden casements and a board door. At the rear, there is a brick outshot.
To the right is a lower range from the later 17th century, which retains some timber framing. The front has been rebuilt in the 19th century using red and white brick, with some flint. This section has an old tile roof and an off-centre chimney made of thin brick. It is one storey and has an attic, with two and a half bays. The ground floor has three paired barred wooden casements, and there is another casement in a gabled dormer to the left. A weatherboard shed is located to the right. Inside, the 16th to 17th-century part features diagonal braces, wind-braces, and a shaped rack over the fireplace.
Local climate
The City 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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