26, High Street South is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. House.
26, High Street South
- WRENN ID
- proud-bonework-sepia
- 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
- 26, High Street South, Olney
- OS grid reference
- SP 889 512
- Coordinates
- 52.15238, -0.7019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 26 on High Street South is an 18th-century stone building with an old tiled roof featuring coped gables and two hipped dormers. The structure has two storeys and an attic. The central entrance consists of a six-fielded panelled door with panelled reveals and soffit, framed by a wooden doorcase that includes pilasters, consoles, and a cornice. On either side of the door, there are sash windows with shallow reveals and flat arches that have keyblocks. The first floor also has three similar windows.
Local climate
26, High Street South 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
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