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
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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

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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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