Britwell House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1980. House. 1 related planning application.

Britwell House

WRENN ID
rough-gable-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1980
Type
House
Address
Britwell House, Britwell Road, Burnham, SL1 8DF
OS grid reference
SU 938 826
Coordinates
51.53493, -0.64881
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Britwell House is an 18th-century house that was significantly enlarged in the 19th century on three sides. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings and has plain tile roofs. The entrance front reveals one end of the original 18th-century house, which is two storeys high and features a 19th-century neo-Jacobean porch and two sash windows above. The roof is hipped. To the right, there is a three-storey wing built around 1870, consisting of four bays separated by brick buttresses, with Gothic-style paired upper floor windows divided by colonettes. Attached to this wing is another addition from around 1900, which has two tall storeys with tripartite windows and a matching ornamental panel made of Portland stone, along with an oval window.

The garden front displays at least two different construction dates; the left side has a foundation stone laid by Lady Grenville in 1864, while the right side features a date plaque from 1895. Both sides have Jacobean-style gables. At the west end of the house, there is a slim tower topped with a pyramid roof. Attached to the right end of the house is a notable chapel built in 1935 by Ninian Comper for the House of Prayer, which occupied the house until 1982. This chapel is made of purple brick with stone dressings, combining classical forms, pedimental gables, and moulded eaves with late Gothic details in the tracery. The interior is finished in white plaster, blending classical and Gothic styles, and includes a fine baldacchino. Historically, Britwell House belonged to the Earl of Orrery from 1713 to 1734 and was later owned by the Christie-Miller family throughout the 19th century.

Local climate

Britwell House 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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  7. 1 and 2, Britwell Gardens Grade II 112 m
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