Lychgate to Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1986. Lychgate.
Lychgate to Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-column-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1986
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate to Churchyard, Hambleden
- OS grid reference
- SU 783 865
- Coordinates
- 51.57248, -0.87022
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate to the churchyard is a structure from the late 19th century. It features flint and ashlar base walls and piers, with a wooden upper structure that includes side arcades of pointed arches, as well as pointed arches at the front and rear. The roof is half-hipped and covered with old tiles, adorned with cusped bargeboards. There are side gablets that include wooden tracery, and a central wooden cross finial tops the structure. This lychgate is included for its group value.
Local climate
Lychgate to Churchyard sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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