The Old Rectory is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. A Early Modern House. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- weathered-plaster-shade
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1958
- Type
- House
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Dean Way, Chalfont St. Giles, HP8 4JH
- OS grid reference
- SU 989 934
- Coordinates
- 51.63117, -0.57224
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a late 17th-century house located in Chalfont St Giles. It is a two-storey building originally consisting of seven bays, constructed from grey brick with red brick dressings. The roof is tiled and hipped, featuring a coved plaster cornice. The windows are double-hung sashes with bars, set in flush moulded frames, and have gauged flat arches on the ground floor. Later alterations include a central doorcase with bracketed hood, reeded half-columns, and a patterned fanlight. Three flat-roofed dormers are visible on the front elevation.
A late 17th-century north-west wing is timber-framed and two storeys high, featuring one window. At the rear of the building, several original 17th-century cross-casement windows remain.
The interior includes an original hall with fielded panelled walls, a first floor with a coved segmental ceiling, and a close string newel staircase with turned balusters.
Local climate
The Old Rectory 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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