The Ship is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1970. House and shop. 1 related planning application.
The Ship
- WRENN ID
- under-courtyard-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1970
- Type
- House and shop
- Address
- The Ship, Lower End, Marsworth, HP23 4NA
- OS grid reference
- SP 919 147
- Coordinates
- 51.82425, -0.66742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ship is a house and shop that dates from the 17th to early 18th century and has been altered over time. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick and render infill, topped with a thatched roof. There is a small 19th-century brick chimney on the right side and the base of an external 19th-century chimney on the front left. The building has one storey and a basement, with two bays. The left bay includes a three-light wooden casement window on the main floor and a boarded door leading to the basement. The right bay has a canted projection with barred sash windows on the main floor and a single barred wooden casement window below on the left. To the left, there is a 20th-century door and casement in a lean-to structure. At the rear of the lean-to, there is a narrow two-storey weatherboarded extension, also thatched, featuring two bays of irregular openings. The right gable of the original block has a small 20th-century lean-to porch that serves the shop.
Local climate
The Ship sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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