Stoke House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. Former preparatory school. 5 related planning applications.
Stoke House
- WRENN ID
- waning-tower-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- Former preparatory school
- Address
- Stoke House, Stoke Poges, SL2 4HX
- OS grid reference
- SU 982 824
- Coordinates
- 51.53222, -0.58507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stoke House is a former preparatory school built in 1821 by Hartleys of Wexham. The building features a stock brick first floor and a cement rendered ground floor, topped with a hipped slate roof that has overhanging eaves. It is two storeys high, with the ends slightly projecting. The first floor has a layout of 1:3:1 sash windows, while the ground floor has 1:3:1 French windows. Across the front, there is a verandah with an arched trellis supported by thin columns. On the left side of the building, the entrance is located in a large closed porch, with a three-storey Italianate tower to the left.
Local climate
Stoke House 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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