White Friars is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. A Medieval House. 1 related planning application.

White Friars

WRENN ID
swift-parapet-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1984
Type
House
Period
Medieval
Address
White Friars, Cheddington Road, Pitstone, LU7 9AN
OS grid reference
SP 936 158
Coordinates
51.83314, -0.64245
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White Friars is a house dating from the 15th to early 16th century, with alterations made in 1600 and later. The northern front features exposed timber framing in the two left bays, while the rest of the building is constructed from whitewashed brick. It has an old tile roof and two intermediate brick chimneys. The house is one storey with an attic and consists of four bays that slightly angle at the center, with the left bay gabled at the front. The windows are mostly diamond leaded casements, many of which were renewed in the 20th century. The left bay of the southern front has three-light casements with segmental heads, while the second bay features a three-light casement below the eaves and a door in a lean-to tiled porch. The right-hand bays contain paired casements in gabled eaves-line dormers and irregular ground floor windows with cambered heads. There is a lower extension to the right with two single lights. Inside, the house has cruck trusses flanking the third bay, some other timber framing, and the right bay features stop-chamfered joists and a spine beam on a bracket dated TBF 1600.

Local climate

White Friars 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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