The Old Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Bakery
- WRENN ID
- iron-finial-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Bakery, High Street, Grendon Underwood, HP18 0SP
- OS grid reference
- SP 683 206
- Coordinates
- 51.87998, -1.00907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bakery is a 17th-century house that has been altered and extended. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick infill, and the near gable has been rebuilt in whitewashed brick. The roof is thatched, and there is a rebuilt central brick chimney. The building is 1½ storeys tall and consists of 2 bays. The front has a 3-light wooden casement window on the left side of the ground floor, a single barred wooden casement on the right, and a paired leaded casement window on the left side of the first floor, all under thatch. There is a central board door. The gable facing the road has 3-light barred wooden casements and an additional single light window on the first floor. At the rear, there is a 20th-century lean-to. To the left, there is a 19th-century 2-storey extension made of whitewashed brick with a slate roof, featuring paired wooden casements and a board door on each floor. Additionally, there is a single-storey 20th-century projection attached to the left corner. A Phoenix fire insurance plaque is located on the front gable.
Local climate
The Old Bakery sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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