The Chalet is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1972. A Late C19 Summer house. 2 related planning applications.
The Chalet
- WRENN ID
- deep-plaster-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1972
- Type
- Summer house
- Period
- Late C19
- Address
- The Chalet, Aston Hill, Aston Clinton, HP22 5NQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 888 101
- Coordinates
- 51.78261, -0.71334
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chalet is a summer house or pavilion, now functioning as a house, built between 1887 and 1888 for Alfred de Rothschild of Halton House to entertain guests. It is reputedly designed by an Austrian architect and is modeled on an Alpine chalet, featuring a timber ground floor and loft set on a brick basement. The building has a large, shallow pitched tiled roof that sweeps down over side verandahs and includes one chimney. The south gable front has a verandah supported by four large posts on red brick bases, braced to tiebeams, with rustic balustrades on both the verandah and balcony, the latter adorned with a band of rustic palissading below. The walls are finished with panels of logs arranged in patterns, and there are heavy plate glass mullioned and transomed windows. Inside, three rooms retain painted and gilded panelling, decorative leather lining, and silk tapestry hangings. The Chalet was visited by Edward VIII, who was a friend of Alfred de Rothschild.
Local climate
The Chalet sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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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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