The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1984. House. 15 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- secret-porch-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Latimer and Ley Hill, HP5 1UA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 001 989
- Coordinates
- 51.6803, -0.55322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is an 18th-century grey brick house featuring red brick dressings. It has an old tile roof and a panelled parapet, along with a dentil brick cornice. The building stands two storeys high and has five double-hung sash windows in wooden flush cases, all with flat arches and raised painted key blocks. The end bricks of the flat arches are also painted. There is a later two-storey wing made of red and grey brick with two windows. The entrance front includes a bracketed door hood and an eaves cornice.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 15 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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