Watercroft is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1982. House. 3 related planning applications.
Watercroft
- WRENN ID
- solemn-spandrel-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Watercroft, Church Road, Penn, HP10 8NX
- OS grid reference
- SU 911 933
- Coordinates
- 51.63134, -0.68505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Watercroft is an early 19th-century building. It has a cement-rendered facade and a hipped roof covered with Welsh slate, featuring an eaves cornice. The two-storey east front has two segmental bow windows on the ground floor, each with elaborate wrought iron balcony railings and French windows. The first floor has original blind hoods. The west front incorporates a modern red brick addition in the centre.
Local climate
Watercroft 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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