5, Lower Street is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
5, Lower Street
- WRENN ID
- former-porch-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5, Lower Street, Quainton, HP22 4BL
- OS grid reference
- SP 745 200
- Coordinates
- 51.87374, -0.91788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Lower Street is a 17th-century house that has been altered over time. It features some timber framing but is mostly rebuilt in whitewashed brick. The roof is half-hipped and thatched, with part of it tiled at the rear. There is a thin brick chimney between the right bays and a 19th-century chimney to the left. The house has one and a half storeys and three bays. The windows are 20th-century leaded casements, with a three-light window on the ground floor of the right bays and a two-light window with a segmental head on the ground floor left. The first floor of the right bays has a two-light window beneath thatch eyebrows. A 20th-century door is located between the left bays and is topped with a gabled timber hood. There is also a conservatory on the right side.
Local climate
5, Lower Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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