57, Lower Street is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
57, Lower Street
- WRENN ID
- calm-railing-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 57, Lower Street, Quainton, HP22 4BL
- OS grid reference
- SP 742 201
- Coordinates
- 51.87454, -0.92238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house dating from the 17th century, with extensions from the 18th century and subsequent alterations. It is timber-framed with whitewashed brick infill upon a whitewashed rubble stone base. The timber frame of the left bay is of a slightly smaller size. The rear wall is of whitewashed rubble stone and brick. The roof is thatched, with a hipped section on the left and a half-hipped section on the right. A rebuilt brick chimney is situated between the right bays. The house has one and a half storeys and three bays. The right bays have 20th-century three-light leaded casement windows on the ground floor, and three two-light windows set within the thatch. A central 20th-century door is present. A board door is found in the left bay.
Local climate
57, Lower Street 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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