Great Seabrook House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. House.

Great Seabrook House

WRENN ID
ancient-bailey-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1984
Type
House
Address
Great Seabrook House, Ivinghoe
OS grid reference
SP 927 166
Coordinates
51.84105, -0.65441
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Great Seabrook House is a house from the mid-18th century that was altered around 1840 and in the 20th century. It features chequer brickwork with dark glazed headers and red brick window surrounds. The building has a projecting plinth and boarded eaves, topped by a hipped roof covered with 20th-century concrete slates, and a brick chimney located to the left of the ridge.

The house is double-piled, consisting of two storeys, a basement, and an attic, with five bays. The main floors have 3-pane sash windows framed with architraves and segmental heads. The south front includes blind windows on the first floor's outer bays and the ground floor of the second bay, along with blocked basement windows that also have segmental heads. There are two gabled dormers that were altered in the 20th century.

A central porch, added in the 20th century, is made of brick with a flat roof and a plain parapet, featuring a tripartite sash window at the front and a door on the left side. There are also 20th-century flanking buttress walls. The left side of the house, which was originally the front, is constructed of vitreous brick with red dressings and includes similar sashes and blocked windows. The interior has been significantly altered in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Local climate

Great Seabrook House 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 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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