Biggs Cave is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Biggs Cave
- WRENN ID
- iron-lancet-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Biggs Cave, Biggs Lane, Dinton-With-Ford and Upton, HP17 8UH
- OS grid reference
- SP 764 107
- Coordinates
- 51.78998, -0.8936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Biggs Cave is a house dating from the 17th century that has been altered over time. It features witchert rendering and a rubblestone plinth, with the left gable made of rubblestone on the ground floor. The exterior is all colourwashed, and it has a thatched roof that is half-hipped with timber-framed gables. The house consists of three bays and is one and a half storeys high.
On the north elevation facing the lane, there is a blocked door in front of the stack located between the left-hand bays. The windows are casement style, with the central window having two leaded lights. There is also a left-hand eaves dormer. Above the door, the wall extends upwards to form a swept-roof addition with a two-light casement window.
The south elevation, which faces the garden, has a door in the centre bay and irregular casement windows, along with a central eaves dormer. A stack made of 17th-century thin bricks is positioned between the eastern bays, indicating that the house originally had a lobby entry plan.
Inside, the house features inglenook fireplaces, chamfered and stopped spine beams, and a reused timber inscribed with 'I.S.W. 1609'.
Local climate
Biggs Cave receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 66% 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 2023
- 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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