The Old Dark Lantern Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1952. Inn. 4 related planning applications.

The Old Dark Lantern Inn

WRENN ID
spare-pavement-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 April 1952
Type
Inn
Address
The Old Dark Lantern Inn, 1, Silver Street, Aylesbury, HP20 2PT
OS grid reference
SP 819 137
Coordinates
51.81613, -0.81316
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Dark Lantern Inn is a timber-framed building that has been refronted in the late 18th century or early 19th century. It stands two storeys high with an attic and features painted brick, a projecting plinth, a band at the first-floor level, and a tiled roof. On the first floor, there are two 3-light casement windows from the 19th century. The ground floor has a door on the left under a modern wood-enclosed porch, flanked by two narrow windows, and a wide triple sash window to the left.

The elevation facing Dark Lantern Passage, which separates the inn from No 4 Market Street, shows timber framing dating from the 16th to 17th century. The gable end has painted brick infilling, and the ground floor has been refaced. In the attic, there is one 2-light casement window, and on the first floor, there is one 3-light casement window from the 19th century. The rear of the building features irregular windows and 17th-century chimney stacks, along with some 17th-century panelling inside.

Local climate

The Old Dark Lantern Inn receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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