Olney Park Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1966. Farmhouse.
Olney Park Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quiet-banister-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1966
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Olney Park Farmhouse, Yardley Road
- OS grid reference
- SP 874 537
- Coordinates
- 52.17541, -0.72312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Olney Park Farmhouse is a 17th-century building that was altered and extended in the early 19th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble and features an old tile roof with stone coped gables on fluted kneelers. Originally T-shaped, the plan is now rectangular, with the main wing running east to west and two storeys plus an attic. There are three two-storey gabled wings on the north side. The building has two brick chimney stacks on the ridge and one large stone lateral stack with paired ashlar shafts on a rubble base.
The south front has four bays, with the three on the right dating from the 17th century and the left one from the early 19th century. The entrance is located in the second bay from the right and features a doorway with moulded jambs, a moulded panel on the doorhead, and a dripstone above. There is a single sash window above the entrance and three tripartite sash windows on each floor. An attic window is located in the east gable, and there is a datestone on the central gable of the north elevation, which is probably from the 17th century but has a reset date of 1829. A small single-storey stone wing is situated at the northwest corner.
Inside, the farmhouse retains original beams and features two moulded oak doorways on the first floor. A 17th-century stone fireplace with a Tudor arch and carved spandrels, now located in the entrance hall, is believed to have been brought from another house. The farmhouse is said to have been built as a hunting lodge for Olney Park, which has been a property of the Duchy of Lancaster since the 15th century.
Local climate
Olney Park Farmhouse 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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