The Close is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
The Close
- WRENN ID
- sharp-bailey-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Close, Lower Road, Hardwick, HP22 4DY
- OS grid reference
- SP 806 190
- Coordinates
- 51.86459, -0.82999
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Close is a house dating from the 17th century that has been altered. It features a timber frame with brick infill, which is whitewashed on the front. The left bay is made of whitewashed rubble stone, while the second bay has been mostly rebuilt in whitewashed brick. The house has a half-hipped thatch roof with brick chimneys located at the center and to the right. It is one storey high with attics and consists of four bays. The windows are irregularly paired barred wooden casements, with five on the ground floor and two in the center of the attic. The left attic window has a tiled apron, and the right is in a gabled dormer with thatch swept around. There is a central 20th-century panelled door located in a 20th-century whitewashed brick and thatch porch.
Local climate
The Close receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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