St John's House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. House.

St John's House

WRENN ID
second-keep-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 October 1952
Type
House
Address
St John's House, Market Hill, Buckingham
OS grid reference
SP 695 340
Coordinates
52.00041, -0.98809
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St John's House is a former schoolmaster's house that has more recently been used as a restaurant. It dates back to the 15th century but was largely rebuilt in 1695 and altered in the 20th century. Originally, the building featured timber framing on the first floor, but the front was reconstructed in red brick laid in Flemish bond, while the ground floor is made of coursed and uncoursed limestone rubble. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has brick end stacks.

The house has a three-unit plan and is two stories high with a four-window range. To the left, there is a six-panel door with an overlight and a wooden lintel, flanked by 20th-century bay windows that have hipped plain-tile roofs. To the right of the center on the ground floor, there are a pair of wood mullion and transom windows with wooden lintels, and similar windows are found on the first floor. The building features a first-floor storey band, deep chamfered limestone eaves, and three hipped roof dormer windows. The end walls are made of coursed squared limestone, with the left side appearing as quoins. The rear wall consists of uncoursed limestone rubble on the ground floor and timber framing on the first floor with red brick infill.

Inside, there is a moulded spine beam in the left ground floor room and a large inglenook fireplace with a bressumer. St John's House is attached to the north end of The Old Latin School and was rebuilt after a fire at the expense of Alexander Denton to serve as a residence for the Master of the Royal Latin School.

Local climate

St John's House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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