House and Attached Dining Hall to the Beacon School is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. House, dining hall. 2 related planning applications.
House and Attached Dining Hall to the Beacon School
- WRENN ID
- scarred-string-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- House, dining hall
- Address
- House and Attached Dining Hall to the Beacon School, Amersham Road, Chesham Bois, HP6 5PF
- OS grid reference
- SU 958 997
- Coordinates
- 51.68811, -0.61471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a house and attached dining hall for the Beacon School, formerly known as Bois Farm. It dates from the 17th century and features a timber-framed structure that was refronted in red brick during the 18th century. The building has an old tiled roof and a large brick chimney at the west end. It is two storeys high with a first-floor band, and there are two 2-light and two 3-light casement windows on each floor, with segmental arches on the ground floor.
Inside, the house retains exposed timber framing. Attached to the east is a barn, which is either 17th or 18th century, timber-framed, and weatherboarded, with an old tiled roof that continues with the house. The barn has a cart entry that is now glazed and features an outshot on the left under the main roof, which includes an inset dormer. The barn has modern windows and an interior with six bays, a single aisle on the north side, curved braces, and raking queenposts. It is currently used as the school dining hall.
Local climate
House and Attached Dining Hall to the Beacon School 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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