The Bury is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1951. Country house. 2 related planning applications.
The Bury
- WRENN ID
- buried-rampart-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1951
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- The Bury, Church Street, Chesham, HP5 1JE
- OS grid reference
- SP 956 014
- Coordinates
- 51.70391, -0.61759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bury is a country house built in 1716 for William Lowndes, who served as Secretary to the Treasury during the reign of Queen Anne. Originally featuring a five-bay front, the house was extended to seven bays in the late 18th century, with a wing added in 1853. The building is constructed of red brick with rusticated quoins and has two storeys, a cornice, and a panelled parapet. It features sash windows with glazing bars set under cambered cutter arches, along with two ground floor segmental bow windows and a Venetian window at either end of the first floor. The entrance front includes a Neo-Tudor wing above a carriage arch, while a Neo-Georgian arcade connects the house to a summer house in the north garden. The interior retains some original panelling. The Bury, along with the Stables and the North and South Lodges, forms a group.
Local climate
The Bury sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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