Rays Yard is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. House.

Rays Yard

WRENN ID
tattered-lime-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1987
Type
House
Address
Rays Yard, Rays Lane, Chepping Wycombe
OS grid reference
SU 905 940
Coordinates
51.63818, -0.693
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rays Yard is a house that was originally four cottages, built in the early to mid-19th century. It features a construction of flint with brick dressings and has hipped old tile roofs with brick chimneys. The building is arranged in an L-plan, with each wing containing a pair of double-fronted cottages, each slightly different in design. The structure is two storeys high and has dentil eaves. The windows are 20th-century leaded casements, with those on the ground floor having various segmental heads. There are also 20th-century half-glazed doors, some of which are in altered openings.

Local climate

Rays Yard 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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