The Vicarage Including Attached Coachhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. A Georgian Vicarage. 7 related planning applications.

The Vicarage Including Attached Coachhouse

WRENN ID
upper-wicket-rye
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Milton Keynes
Constituency
Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 March 1952
Type
Vicarage
Period
Georgian
Address
The Vicarage Including Attached Coachhouse, Church Street, Olney, MK46 4AD
OS grid reference
SP 889 511
Coordinates
52.1512, -0.70078
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Vicarage, together with its attached coachhouse, dates to the early 18th century. It is constructed of ashlar stone with an old tiled roof, featuring three widely spaced hipped dormers with double-hung sashes. There are three stone and brick chimney stacks and a dentilled eaves cornice. The building is two storeys and an attic, with a first-floor band.

The main entrance is on the right, featuring a four-panel door with two flush panels, set within a good stone doorcase. The doorcase has plain reveals, an eared architrave, a pulvinated frieze, and consoles supporting a dentilled triangular pediment. Sashes with plain stone architraves and keyblocks are present; two windows are to the right of the door, three to the left, and six to the first floor. A low stone wall links the house to an 18th-century stone coachhouse with an old tiled roof, containing a door on the left and a carriageway door on the right.

The Vicarage was the home of John Newton, while he served as curate of Olney from 1764 to 1780. He was a friend of William Cowper and collaborated with him on the Olney Hymns.

Local climate

The Vicarage Including Attached Coachhouse 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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  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 7 applications
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  • 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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