The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1966. House.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
tattered-garret-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Milton Keynes
Constituency
Milton Keynes Central MP: Emily Darlington (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1966
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory, 1-4, Willen Road, Milton Keynes Village, Broughton and Milton Keynes, MK10 9AF
OS grid reference
SP 888 392
Coordinates
52.04425, -0.70534
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century that has been altered. It is constructed of plum-coloured brick with gauged brick dressings and features a hipped old tile roof with a moulded and bracketed wood brick cornice. The building has two hipped dormers and flanking chimneys with offset heads. It is two storeys high with an attic and has a first-floor band. The south front consists of five bays, with the three central bays slightly projecting and a pediment above. The windows are sash style set in architrave frames, although the ground floor glazing has been altered, featuring flat gauged brick arches. There is a central glazed door in an architrave surround, complete with console brackets and a cornice. The west front has three bays, with the outer bays slightly projecting and a cornice that is broken cut above. The outer bays have sash windows, while the centre bay contains brick panels and an early 19th-century canted bay window on the left side.

Inside, the drawing room features contemporary panelling, and there is a modern staircase.

Local climate

The Old Rectory 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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