Thorpe's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1984. House.
Thorpe's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- guardian-jade-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thorpe's Farmhouse, Pound Lane, Preston Bissett
- OS grid reference
- SP 658 297
- Coordinates
- 51.96244, -1.04351
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thorpe's Farmhouse is a house dated 1795, as indicated by the inscription above the door. It is constructed from coursed rubble stone with toothed brick eaves and features an old tile roof with flanking brick stacks. The building has two storeys and a basement on the left half, consisting of two bays with different floor levels. The windows are 20th-century three-light wooden casements with boards over the lintels, and there is a 20th-century central door with an old timber lintel. At the rear, there are 20th-century brick extensions.
Local climate
Thorpe's Farmhouse 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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