Mary Monks Close is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House. 1 related planning application.

Mary Monks Close

WRENN ID
waning-joist-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1967
Type
House
Address
Mary Monks Close, 12, High Street, Whitchurch, HP22 4JT
OS grid reference
SP 803 205
Coordinates
51.87802, -0.83379
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a late 18th-century house, which has been altered and extended over time. The original part is constructed of red brick with tuck pointing, featuring a moulded plinth and a moulded wooden eaves cornice with ornamental dentils. The roof is slate-covered, with brick chimneys on either side. The building originally had two storeys and three bays. The ground floor windows are wooden casements with bars, each with three lights, except for the centre window which has two lights. These windows have lozenge panes in the top lights and are set within gauged brick heads. The central ground floor window has been altered, likely originally being above the front door. A two-light wooden casement is found in the left gable of the attic.

A further bay was added to the right side of the original house. This addition is rendered and whitewashed, with a three-light leaded casement window. The entrance to this bay features a fine six-panelled door, a semi-circular radiating fanlight within a depressed arch, panelled reveals, flanking Doric pilasters, and a 20th-century entablature hood with a triglyph frieze.

A gabled cross wing, built around 1911-1912, extends to the far right. This wing is also rendered and whitewashed, with an asbestos slate roof and barred sash windows. The rear of the building has been significantly altered in the 20th century.

Local climate

Mary Monks Close 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 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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