Jerome Farmhouse Monks Corner is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.

Jerome Farmhouse Monks Corner

WRENN ID
hollow-wattle-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1987
Type
House
Address
Jerome Farmhouse Monks Corner, Great Marlow, SL7 2QR
OS grid reference
SU 823 868
Coordinates
51.5743, -0.81238
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Jerome Farmhouse and Monks Corner are two houses, originally a single house with a service wing, dating to around 1900. They were built for Conrad Dressler, a sculptor and producer of Medmenham Ware. The houses are constructed of whitewashed brick with an off-set string course and dentil eaves, covered by a plain tile roof, and have brick chimneys. The design is a T-shape, with the service wing extending across the southwest end.

The main block is two storeys high and features leaded casement windows. The ground floor has three 3-light casements and two slit windows, along with a pair of double doors with a semi-circular leaded fanlight towards the right end. The first floor includes four-light and three-light casements, a long frieze panel of painted terracotta depicting relief scenes of women at work, and two terracotta roundels featuring busts in a Della Robbia style. A small corner pavilion is set at an angle to the left end, with a pyramid roof and a metal weathervane in the form of a ship; it also has an arched terracotta panel depicting a female figure. The service wing to the right has a roundel in the gable end, and an unpainted terracotta frieze showing laundry-women. All the terracotta was produced locally by Dressler, who also supplied panels for Westfield Cottages in Medmenham, and tiles for buildings on the Danesfield estate.

The houses are historically significant as the former home of Jerome K. Jerome, author of "Three Men in a Boat," from approximately 1910 to 1920.

Local climate

Jerome Farmhouse Monks Corner sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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  • Flood risk assessment
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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