Hillside Little States is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1976. A Victorian Former laundry/houses. 3 related planning applications.

Hillside Little States

WRENN ID
vast-tin-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 October 1976
Type
Former laundry/houses
Period
Victorian
Address
Hillside Little States, School Lane, Medmenham, SL7 2HJ
OS grid reference
SU 807 848
Coordinates
51.55694, -0.83648
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hillside and Little States are two former laundry buildings, now converted into houses, dating from around 1898 to 1900. They were designed by Romaine Walker for Mr. Robert Hudson of Medmenham Abbey and Danesfield. The lower storey is constructed of dressed chalk blocks, while the upper storey features roughcast and whitewashed walls, topped with a plain tile roof and brick chimneys that have 'V' pilasters and offset heads, giving the buildings a picturesque appearance.

The structure is two storeys high with an attic and consists of approximately six bays. It has leaded windows with ovolo-moulded mullions, with chalk used for the ground floor and wood for the upper storeys. The two central bays are slightly advanced and have gables that overhang on a coved jetty, supported by a moulded bressumer. Below the bressumer, there is a long strip of 24 transomed lights, divided into three groups of eight by narrow recessed panels. The gables contain three-light attic casements, although the left one has been altered.

The ground floor windows have been modified to include paired leaded casements in wooden frames, while the outer bays feature irregular ground floor windows and a gabled dormer with a paired leaded casement on the right. Additionally, there are two panelled doors framed by moulded and stopped chalk surrounds, featuring four-centred arches and carved spandrels.

Local climate

Hillside Little States sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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