Handy Cross Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1977. Farmhouse.
Handy Cross Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- twisted-dormer-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1977
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Handy Cross Farmhouse, Little Marlow
- OS grid reference
- SU 852 907
- Coordinates
- 51.60909, -0.77053
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Handy Cross Farmhouse is a house located in Little Marlow, likely dating from the 17th to early 18th century, with a west wing added in the early 19th century. The original section features flint with narrow brick dressings on the rear, while the front is rendered and colourwashed. The 19th-century part is similarly rendered at the front but has a brick rear. The house has an old tiled roof.
An external chimney made of thin brick with crow-stepped facing is located at the right end, and there is another brick chimney with grouped shafts on the 19th-century wing. The farmhouse has a tall gabled cross wing that projects to the right, which is two storeys high with an attic. There is also a two-storey gabled cross wing in the centre, with a 19th-century bay window abutting to the left, also two storeys high.
The windows are modern wooden casements, with three lights in the right bays and two lights over four lights in the left. A modern door is set in a small wooden porch located in the angle between the right bays. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Handy Cross Farmhouse 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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