The Little Close is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Little Close
- WRENN ID
- plain-casement-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Little Close, 82, High Street, Great Missenden, HP16 0AN
- OS grid reference
- SP 894 011
- Coordinates
- 51.70202, -0.70637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century brick building, now rendered and painted on its front elevation, located on the west side of Great Missenden High Street. It has an old tile roof. The building is two storeys high, with a central entrance protected by a metal tent canopy supported by slender columns. There are double-hung sash windows with four panes to each side of the entrance, and two similar windows above. An offset stack is located on the left-hand gable.
Local climate
The Little Close 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 81% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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