12, Upper Street is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. House.

12, Upper Street

WRENN ID
small-copper-wind
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
12, Upper Street, Quainton
OS grid reference
SP 744 202
Coordinates
51.87553, -0.91951
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 12 Upper Street is a house dating from the 16th to 17th century that has been altered over time. It features a timber frame with whitewashed render infill and a thatched roof, along with a rebuilt chimney that has grouped shafts made of thin brick between the left bays. The house is two storeys high and consists of three bays. The windows are irregular leaded casements, with the old ones located in the ground floor center and the first floor of the left bays, while the rest are from the 20th century. The upper windows in the right bays are cross casements, partly in thatch. There is a 20th-century door to the right, and another door to the right of the left bay has a thatch hood with flanking old single leaded lights. At the rear of the right bay, there is a small wing that retains some timber framing inside, and a lean-to covers the remainder of the rear.

Inside, the outer bays have heavy joists running along the axis of the building, with the left bay also containing a cross passage. The center bay features a stop-chamfered spine beam and joists, along with a single-sided stone fireplace. A small blocked 2-light window in the original rear wall has diamond and moulded mullions.

Local climate

12, Upper 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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