The Old Town House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Dentists' surgery. 1 related planning application.
The Old Town House
- WRENN ID
- upper-step-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- Dentists' surgery
- Address
- The Old Town House, 2 and 2a, High Street, Wendover, HP22 6DU
- OS grid reference
- SP 869 078
- Coordinates
- 51.76291, -0.74158
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Town House is a late 19th-century red brick building with blue brick decoration and stone dressings, originally built as a dentists’ surgery and formerly Wendover Literary Institute, opened in 1863. It may have been designed by William Wilkinson of Oxford. The building has a steep-pitched tiled roof with decorative bands of fishscale tiles, a brick chimney, and dentil brick eaves.
The High Street elevation features a projecting gable to the right, with a three-light gothic arched window on the first floor, characterised by colonnettes and moulded capitals. Below are two segmental arched sash windows. A central gabled porch contains a gothic arched doorway and displays an inscription and date on the apex stone. To the left is a two-light gothic window, and the right-hand light has a sloping cill. The Aylesbury Road elevation includes a full-height canted bay to the right with gothic arched windows at the upper level and segmental windows below. The building occupies a prominent location in the village centre.
Local climate
The Old Town House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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