The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1959. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- drifting-trefoil-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Main Road, Dunton, MK18 3LW
- OS grid reference
- SP 823 242
- Coordinates
- 51.91106, -0.80377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
House. Built in the early 18th century, with alterations in the late 18th century. The north-west front is constructed of red and vitreous brick with a moulded plinth, a first-floor band course, and moulded stone eaves. The south-east front is of vitreous brick headers with flush red brick quoins, a band course, and window surrounds. Both fronts have a similar plinth and eaves. The roof is of old tiles, with stone-coped gables, and flanking brick chimneys. The house is two storeys, attic, and basement, with five bays. The main storeys feature three-pane sash windows in architrave frames with gauged brick heads. There are three dormer windows with flat roofs, moulded cornices, and paired wooden casements, the central north-west dormer having a small barred sash. The basement has two windows to the north-west, the one on the right being blocked. The centre of the north-west front has a longer sash window to the first floor with intersecting glazing bars, and steps lead to a half-glazed door within a Ware doorcase featuring a blind radiating fanlight in an open dentil pediment on fluted Doric pilasters with a triglyph entablature. A half-glazed door with a rectangular fanlight is centrally located on the south-east side. Above this door is a canted oriel of wooden boards with a moulded cornice and round-headed sash windows with Y glazing bars and architrave frames. The house includes small, attached service blocks, each of one storey and attic, with moulded brick eaves and old tile roofs, paired barred wooden casements, and board doors. To the north-west, the door on the right has a Serlian stone window with a bonded central arch and moulded cornices over the flanking lights. The interior contains a central hall with a late 18th-century staircase.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- 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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