The Old House and Attached Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1973. House. 12 related planning applications.
The Old House and Attached Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- tilted-pinnacle-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old House and Attached Outbuilding, 55 and 56, Well Street, Buckingham, MK18 1EP
- OS grid reference
- SP 695 337
- Coordinates
- 51.998, -0.98806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House and attached outbuilding date from the early to mid-18th century, with later alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, featuring flared headers, and has a plain-tile roof with brick end stacks. The main house is of three-unit design, with two storeys and an attic, and originally had a six-window front. The right-hand side features a six-panel door with a moulded wooden surround within a 19th-century stuccoed porch, which has an elliptical arched doorway with impost mouldings, a plinth, and a pair of narrow, single-light openings on either side. A six-panel, part-glazed door with a moulded wooden surround and shaped bracket hood is located to the left of centre (leading to No. 56). The ground floor windows are 12-pane sashes with segmental arches above straight window heads; the first-floor windows have 12 panes and flat arches. A blank window is present on the ground floor to the right of the porch. Pairs of dummy windows with painted glazing bars are visible on the first floor to the left of centre and far right. A plinth, moulded storey band, hollow-chamfered brick eaves, and two hip-roofed dormer windows are also present. Rows of flared brick headers are positioned around the windows. The attached outbuilding to the right is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern with flared headers, and has a hipped plain-tile roof. It features a central double-leaf carriage door with a wicket gate to the left and later, lower, double-leaf carriage doors to the right, both with wooden lintels; a gabled roof dormer is on the far left. The interior includes chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, a staircase with mahogany stick balusters, column newels, and a ramped handrail, and a stone cellar.
Local climate
The Old House and Attached Outbuilding 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 2009
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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