Lovett House and Wall Attached to Rear is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. House, school. 3 related planning applications.
Lovett House and Wall Attached to Rear
- WRENN ID
- lost-railing-evening
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, school
- Address
- Lovett House and Wall Attached to Rear, LU7 0BZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 882 271
- Coordinates
- 51.9355, -0.71725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lovett House, along with an attached wall, dates to the early 18th century, though a worn stone plaque on the front suggests a possible foundation date of 1724 (according to Pevsner and the Victoria County History). It may have been designed by Thomas Harris of Cublington. The house is constructed of red and vitreous brick, with red brick quoins, window surrounds, a first-floor band course, and moulded eaves. It has a tiled roof with brick coped gables and brick chimneys to the gables and between bays six and seven.
The building is two storeys and an attic, with nine bays. The main floors feature leaded cross casements; ground-floor windows have gauged brick heads, while first-floor windows have moulded brick lintels. Four hipped dormers with paired leaded casements light the attic. A blocked basement window is located to the left of centre. The entrances in bays three and seven have six-panelled doors with rectangular fanlights, each sheltered by a moulded segmental hood supported on carved scroll brackets; the right-hand hood has been slightly altered. Stone plaques are positioned below the central first-floor window and within a chamfered brick surround in the left gable end.
The rear elevation is more irregular and features similar windows with gauged segmental heads, some of which are blocked. A gable above an eaves cornice is present in the bay to the right of centre, alongside a staircase window.
The interior includes a fine early 18th-century staircase with twisted balusters, a moulded handrail, and square newel posts with pendent finials. Small stone fireplaces and stop-chamfered spine beams are also present. A room on the ground floor, to the right, may have originally served as the schoolroom.
Attached to the northwest corner is a short length of red brick wall with blue brick diaperwork and semi-circular coping.
Local climate
Lovett House and Wall Attached to Rear 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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