Town Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.

Town Farmhouse

WRENN ID
worn-barrel-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1987
Type
House
Address
Town Farmhouse, Beacon Hill, Penn, Chepping Wycombe, HP10 8NJ
OS grid reference
SU 907 924
Coordinates
51.62324, -0.69094
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Town Farmhouse is a house dating from the early to mid-16th century, featuring a cross wing on the right and a later 16th-century jettied addition of two bays. To the left, there are two additional bays from the same century but built differently. The structure is timber-framed with large curved braces and brick and plaster infill, most of which is whitewashed. It has an old tiled roof and a rebuilt brick chimney situated between the jettied bays.

The house is two storeys high with five bays. The left bays contain irregular 20th-century leaded casements, while the ground floor on the right has an old three-light leaded casement and a 20th-century board door in the centre. The centre bays feature an upper storey that juts out at the front, with old leaded casements likely from the 18th to early 19th century; the ground floor on the left has board shutters. The upper right window is flanked by original three-light windows with finely moulded mullions, while the left window has two leaded lights, with the other lights blocked. The upper window in the left bay is from the 20th century, and there is a flush-panelled door to the right.

The cross wing on the right is slightly lower and has a half-hipped front. It features an old three-light leaded casement on the first floor, with 20th-century French doors and flanking single lights below. The rear of the house has lean-to extensions, a central gabled stair turret, and other 20th-century extensions.

Inside, the left bays have heavy rough timbers with cambered tie beams. The jettied section includes a stop-chamfered spine beam in the left bay, an ovolo moulded spine with bar stops in the right bay, and stop-chamfered joists. There is an original first-floor window with moulded mullions in the rear wall. The right wing features arched wind-braces in the front bay and remains of a substantial brace, which has been altered, in the cross wall.

Local climate

Town Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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 — 4 transactions since 2016
  • 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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