Castle Hill House (Borough Museum) is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. House, museum. 2 related planning applications.
Castle Hill House (Borough Museum)
- WRENN ID
- rooted-steeple-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1954
- Type
- House, museum
- Address
- Castle Hill House (Borough Museum), the Greenway, HP13 6PX
- OS grid reference
- SU 867 932
- Coordinates
- 51.63129, -0.74803
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Hill House, also known as the Borough Museum, dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century. The front block was remodeled around 1778, resulting in a symmetrical south elevation with three bays. The building was later extended on the east by one bay, designed to match the original. It is constructed of flint rubble, featuring pilasters at the corners and between the bays. The roof is hipped and covered with Welsh slate, complete with a wide eaves cornice. The house has two storeys and attics, with four sash windows set in reveals. The central door on the left side is glazed and has two folds, topped by a traceried elliptical fanlight within a deeply recessed segmentally arched opening, surrounded by slim panelled Doric pilasters. A date panel on the west side of the elevation indicates the year 1778. At the back, there is an earlier 18th-century wing that is roughcast and has an old tiled roof.
Local climate
Castle Hill House (Borough Museum) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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