The Old Bankchambers is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. Bank, office. 1 related planning application.
The Old Bankchambers
- WRENN ID
- still-roof-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1952
- Type
- Bank, office
- Address
- The Old Bankchambers, 35 and 36, Market Place, Olney, MK46 4AJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 889 512
- Coordinates
- 52.15255, -0.7016
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bankchambers is a 18th-century building located on the south side of Olney Market Place. It features a stone construction with a tiled roof and brick chimney stacks, and includes one flat-topped dormer. The building is two storeys high and has a plinth and a first-floor band.
Number 35 has a 19th-century shop front with panelled stallrisers and pilasters, topped with a cornice. There is a segmental arched carriage entry in the centre. Number 36 features a six-panelled door with a plain rectangular fanlight, accessed by three stone steps. To the right, there are two sash windows with keystones in the floorband and no glazing bars. The first floor has five sash windows, all with glazing bars and stone lintels that also have keystones.
Local climate
The Old Bankchambers 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- 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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