The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. A C17 House. 8 related planning applications.
The Old House
- WRENN ID
- brooding-chancel-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old House, School Lane, Chearsley, HP18 0BT
- OS grid reference
- SP 719 106
- Coordinates
- 51.79014, -0.9587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House is a house dating to the 17th century, with additions from the 18th century. It is timber framed with brick infill on a rubblestone plinth. The central two bays are timber-framed, while the eastern bay is colourwashed and rendered, and the western part is a two-bay rubblestone addition, with a two-bay barn beyond, the latter having a rubblestone lower part and colourwashed render above. The roofs are covered in plain tiles. The central bay has a door with a gabled hood supported by brackets. Each bay has three-light casement windows. A central stack is constructed of old thin bricks. The eastern bay features a three-light casement on the ground floor. The western bays include a doorway on the right, with swept eaves breaking over the upper floor three-light casement. There are two two-light casements to the ground floor, with cambered brick arches. The left-hand part has a blocked barn door with a casement above.
Local climate
The Old House 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 57% 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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