The Sportsman is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Sportsman
- WRENN ID
- under-brick-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Sportsman, Lower Street, Quainton, HP22 4BJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 746 200
- Coordinates
- 51.87376, -0.91775
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sportsman is a 17th-century public house situated on the south side of Lower Street in Quinton. It is timber-framed with whitewashed brick infill, featuring a half-hipped thatched roof and brick chimneys positioned between the left bays and to the right. The building is arranged over one and a half storeys and comprises three bays. It has barred wooden casements – three-light windows to the ground floor of the left bays, a canted bay window to the right, and a paired casement on the upper storey centrally within the thatch. Board doors are located to the right of the left and central bays. A gable facing the street contains a similar three-light casement window on the first floor. 20th-century extensions are present to the far gable. The interior contains stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
The Sportsman sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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