Old Oaks is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. House.

Old Oaks

WRENN ID
sleeping-pewter-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1984
Type
House
Address
Old Oaks, Little Horwood
OS grid reference
SP 794 308
Coordinates
51.97022, -0.84552
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Oaks is a house dating from the late 16th century, which has been altered over time. It features a timber-frame construction with close studding on the ground floor and a jettied first floor. The ground floor has been partially infilled with 20th-century brick, which is partly colourwashed. The right gable and the ground floor of the left gable were rebuilt in the 17th century using rubble stone, while the upper part of the right gable is now covered in colourwashed roughcast. The house has an old tile roof that is hipped to the left, with brick chimneys located at the gables and between the right-hand bays.

The building is two storeys high with an attic and consists of three bays. It features irregular 20th-century leaded windows, with three lights in the left-hand bays, two lights in the lower right, and two single lights in the upper right. There is a lobby entry between the right-hand bays, which has a lintel with a four-centred arch that has been altered. A 20th-century attic dormer is present on the left side, along with 20th-century extensions in colourwashed brick at the rear, set back to the left.

Inside, the ground floor room on the left has moulded cross beams and a fireplace with a moulded Tudor arch above a wooden lintel. There is also a stone fireplace on the first floor with moulded jambs and a chamfered lintel, as well as another large open fireplace at the right end. The roof includes curved windbraces.

Local climate

Old Oaks 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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