The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. Rectory. 12 related planning applications.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- scattered-cellar-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1958
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Rectory, Rectory Hill, Amersham, HP7 0BT
- OS grid reference
- SU 959 978
- Coordinates
- 51.67108, -0.61448
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory, built around 1730, is a two-storey building with a basement and attics, constructed from yellow brick and topped with a hipped tile roof featuring three box dormers that have 2-light leaded casements. The south elevation has a slight central projection adorned with a dentil open pediment, which contains a two-storey round-headed panel with impost bands. This facade includes five double-hung sash windows set in reveals with sills and flat arches. There are two flights of converging steps with ornate wrought iron railings leading to the central ground floor door, which features an oblong fanlight and is framed by fluted Roman Ionic pilasters topped with an entablature that includes paterae and a dentil cornice.
On the north elevation, there is a central round-headed window on the first floor, flanked by one narrow sash window on each side, along with projecting stacks and narrow dummy windows. An early 19th-century two-storey lean-to with a slate roof features a central pedimented porch, which has a six-panel door in an architrave, flanked by two circular windows with architraves and wheel pattern glazing. A red brick wing on the east is now connected by a wall and has a tiled roof. The east elevation displays two gables with brick coping and dummy lunettes, along with three double-hung sash windows with segmental arches. There is also a cross wing on the west side that features similar gable treatment.
Local climate
The 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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