Top Meadow is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1985. Residential. 3 related planning applications.
Top Meadow
- WRENN ID
- solitary-copper-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1985
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Top Meadow, 1, Grove Road, Beaconsfield, HP9 1UR
- OS grid reference
- SU 943 904
- Coordinates
- 51.60518, -0.63967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top Meadow is a large house built in 1912 by W.F.C. Holden, with later additions in 1922 and 1935. It served as the home of G.K. Chesterton from 1922 to 1936. The house is constructed of red brick with a machine tile roof. It is a single storey plus attic, with two chimneys featuring paired stacks arranged diagonally on square bases. One chimney stands above and behind a gabled bay with flanking hipped roofs, which provide a fireplace inside. Curved dormer windows with leaded lights are positioned either side of this chimney, creating an asymmetrical appearance. To the right is a front door and a dormer window with a hipped roof. A gabled addition was built in 1922; its ground floor is brick, while the first floor and attic are of imitation timber framing. A less architecturally significant library was added to the rear in 1935.
Local climate
Top Meadow 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 5 transactions since 1998
- 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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