The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Edgcott Road, Grendon Underwood, HP18 0SY
- OS grid reference
- SP 677 210
- Coordinates
- 51.88378, -1.01734
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house built in 1762. It is constructed from brown and vitreous brick, featuring red brick quoins and window surrounds. The building has a brick plinth and a moulded wooden eaves' cornice with modillions, topped by a hipped old tile roof. The house is two storeys high, with a basement and attic, and consists of five bays.
On the ground floor, there are two Venetian windows with architrave arches and cornices supported by Doric pilasters. The first floor features three-pane sash windows with gauged brick heads. There are three hipped dormers with old leaded cross casements and moulded wooden cornices. The plinth has two segmental arches, with the right arch containing a two-light window to the basement. The centre of the façade has five stone steps leading up to a six-panelled door, which is topped by a semi-circular radiating fanlight set in an architrave arch, and is framed by an open pediment on Doric pilasters.
At the rear, there is a later 18th-century red brick wing attached to the left bays, which has a similar wooden eaves' cornice. There are also 19th-century additions to the right at the rear, and the left side features canted bay windows from the 19th to 20th centuries.
Local climate
The Old Rectory 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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