Denham Court is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. Country house. 4 related planning applications.
Denham Court
- WRENN ID
- muted-groin-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Denham Court, UB9 5PG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 050 868
- Coordinates
- 51.5703, -0.4852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Denham Court is an early and late 18th-century country house that has undergone 19th-century alterations. The main garden front, dating from the late 18th century, is constructed of brown brick with red gauged brick window heads and features stone bands and a cornice. The slate roof is set behind a parapet. The central section of the house is three storeys high with a 2:3:2 window arrangement, where the middle three windows are recessed. There are stone bands at the second and first floor levels of the central three windows only. The entrance features a pedimented doorcase with a fluted frieze, sheltered by a large 19th-century painted Roman Doric porch.
Flanking the central section are two-storey wings, each with a large three-window bow. Glazing bar sashes are preserved in the wings and on the upper floor of the central section. The east front is similar, also two storeys high with a 1:3:1 window layout, where the central three windows form a broad shallow bow with tripartite cambered head ground floor sashes and sash windows above. The ends of this front have blank first-floor windows and a round arched doorway below, which features a moulded impost and keystone. The eaves are overhanging with a panelled soffit.
The north front, dating from the early 18th century, is made of red brick that has been painted, with a hipped slate roof. This side is two storeys and an attic, with a three-window range of sash windows that have gauged brick heads and a stone cornice. The doorway has gauged brick jambs and is also adorned with a 19th-century painted Roman Doric porch. To either side, there are service additions from the 18th and 19th centuries. The west side service range features an 18th-century brick front that is two storeys high with a ten-window range, complete with a floor band and nogged brick eaves. The windows include small first-floor and larger ground-floor openings with gauged brick heads, including one ground-floor Venetian window.
Inside, there are two early 18th-century rooms on the ground floor, one of which contains panels featuring sporting and other paintings, while the other has a marble fireplace and an overdoor with landscape paintings. The house also includes a 19th-century staircase.
Local climate
Denham Court sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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 — 4 applications
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- 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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