Shell House is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. A C17 House. 8 related planning applications.
Shell House
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-tin-thistle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Shell House, Village Lane, Hedgerley, SL2 3UY
- OS grid reference
- SU 970 876
- Coordinates
- 51.57953, -0.60132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shell House is a late 17th-century building constructed of brick, featuring red stretchers and blue-grey headers, topped with an old tile-hipped roof. It has a moulded brick string course at the first floor level and stands two storeys tall with an attic. The road elevation includes one dormer, while the side elevation has two dormers. A heavy timber eaves cornice with wooden corbels adorns the roofline.
The first floor has two 2-light casement windows with timber mullions and transoms, along with leaded lights. The ground floor features one 2-light casement window and a two-fold door with six fielded panels, topped by a rectangular fanlight. This door is approached by a flight of steps and is framed by brick Ionic pilasters that support a hood with carved consoles.
To the left, there is a one-storey modern addition built with matching materials, featuring a shaped gable end. Inside, the house retains an old staircase and remnants of a 17th-century overmantel.
Local climate
Shell House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 8 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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