Hobcraft House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1983. House.
Hobcraft House
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-hammer-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hobcraft House, 24, Main Street, Shalstone
- OS grid reference
- SP 641 368
- Coordinates
- 52.02633, -1.06579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hobcraft House is a 17th-century house located on Main Street in Shalstone. It is constructed of rubble stone and features a tiled roof. The building has a central double-sided chimney stack made of thin bricks with three truncated square shafts set diagonally. The house is two storeys high and the south front has three bays, each with three-light wooden casements. There is a central lobby entry that is accessed through a 19th-century stone porch, which is rendered at the front and tiled. Additionally, there are modern porch extensions on both gable ends and a lean-to at the rear.
Local climate
Hobcraft 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 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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