The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. A Late Medieval House. 3 related planning applications.
The Old House
- WRENN ID
- lost-span-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old House, Speen Road, Hughenden, HP14 4NL
- OS grid reference
- SU 848 988
- Coordinates
- 51.68231, -0.77411
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House is a house with a late 16th-century bay and an 18th-century to early 19th-century cross wing to the right, creating an L-shaped layout. A further bay was added to the rear of the cross wing around 1950, and another wing was built around 1950, connecting to the rear left corner of the 16th-century bay. The 16th-century section has been partly rebuilt in whitewashed brick but retains a timber frame with a jettied upper story. The cross wing is constructed of flint with brick dressings, with the upper story partly roughcast and all surfaces whitewashed. The 20th-century extensions are of matching style, and the rear left wing is half-timbered with a jettied upper story supported on decorative brackets. The house has old tile roofs. A square brick chimney is located to the right of the 16th-century bay, with a later gabled staircase projection facing the front. The house has two stories and an attic. Windows are irregular 20th-century barred wooden and leaded casements. A French door is present in the 16th-century bay, and the main entrance is within a 20th-century gabled porch on the right side of the cross wing. Inside, the house features stop-chamfered spine beams and original board doors.
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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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