Olney House is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. House.
Olney House
- WRENN ID
- fading-pavement-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Olney House, High Street
- OS grid reference
- SP 888 514
- Coordinates
- 52.15415, -0.70201
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Olney House is an 18th-century building located on the west side of Olney High Street. It has been altered and features a combination of stone and roughcast with a modern mansard slate roof that includes three flat-topped dormer sash windows. The house is two storeys tall with an attic. The ground floor is finished in rusticated stone, while the first floor is roughcast and has quoins.
The central entrance features a panelled door with a semi-circular fanlight above, framed by a stone doorcase supported by consoles and topped with a triangular pediment that is broken beneath. On either side of the entrance, there are Venetian windows with rusticated mullions, and above, there are two additional windows on the first floor with moulded heads and plain architraves. The central window on the first floor is semi-circular arched, framed by wide shouldered moulded architraves.
Adjacent to Olney House is No 15, a wing that is one window wide and set back at the south end. This wing was re-faced in the 20th century to match the house and is now a separate property, featuring a lower doorway section on the left.
Local climate
Olney House 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 89% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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