8, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. Shop. 1 related planning application.
8, High Street
- WRENN ID
- pitched-pilaster-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1952
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 8, High Street, Olney, MK46 4BB
- OS grid reference
- SP 889 514
- Coordinates
- 52.15376, -0.70163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8, High Street is an 18th-century building that has been altered. The exterior is rendered over defective ashlar, and it has a modern pantiled roof with a brick stack. The building is three storeys high. It features half-glazed double doors with a wooden lintel. There's an altered 19th-century shop window on the right side, and a later 19th-century canted bay window on the left. The first floor has tripartite sash windows in the outer bays, a sash window in the centre, and three sash windows on the second floor. All the windows have 19th-century glazing.
Local climate
8, High Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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