Lower House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1981. House. 4 related planning applications.
Lower House
- WRENN ID
- second-mantel-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lower House, 72, Bicester Road, Long Crendon, HP18 9EF
- OS grid reference
- SP 687 092
- Coordinates
- 51.77763, -1.00556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower House is a building that dates from the medieval period to the 17th century and has been restored. It is two storeys high with an attic and constructed of rubble stone, featuring timber-framing and plaster infill. The gable on the right side has one modern casement window on each floor. The left wing includes a 3-light casement window on the ground floor and a 2-light gabled front wing with a 3-light casement window. The main block has timber-framing and brick flank walls. Inside, there is an arch-braced cruck truss.
Local climate
Lower House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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