Prospect House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1984. House.
Prospect House
- WRENN ID
- idle-rotunda-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Prospect House, 108, High Street, Great Missenden
- OS grid reference
- SP 895 010
- Coordinates
- 51.70135, -0.70522
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Prospect House is a late 18th-century building located on the west side of High Street in Great Missenden. It features red and grey brick with red dressings and quoins, and has a hipped slate roof topped with a moulded wooden cornice. The house is two storeys tall and has three double-hung sash windows set in flush moulded wood frames, each with cut brick flat arches and wooden cills. The entrance boasts a well-crafted doorway that includes brackets supporting a dentil cornice and an open pediment, a six-panel door, and a semi-circular wheel fanlight set in an archivolt with impost bands. The side walls are made of flint rubble, accented with red brick dressings.
Local climate
Prospect House 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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