Mason's House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1984. House.
Mason's House
- WRENN ID
- ancient-loft-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mason's House, Townsend, Marsh Gibbon
- OS grid reference
- SP 641 227
- Coordinates
- 51.89938, -1.06927
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mason's House is a mid-18th century house located in Marsh Gibbon. It is built of coursed rubble stone with a slate roof and features flanking brick chimneys. The house has an L-plan layout, is two storeys high with an attic and cellar, and consists of three bays. The ground floor has barred sash windows with stone voussoir heads, while the first floor has timber lintels above its windows. There is a blocked window in the cellar. The house also features three gabled dormers, each with paired casements. The central entrance is a six-panelled door that is half-glazed, topped with a rectangular fanlight and a flat wooden hood supported by cut brackets. To the right, there is a two-storey extension that is set forward in alignment with Townsend Farmhouse; this extension has paired casements on the ground floor and a sash window above. The rear wing includes wooden casements and a two-panelled door.
Local climate
Mason's 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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