The Olde Power House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1983. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Olde Power House
- WRENN ID
- muffled-brass-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Olde Power House, Main Street, Adstock, MK18 2JN
- OS grid reference
- SP 736 302
- Coordinates
- 51.96598, -0.92954
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Olde Power House is an 18th-century house located on Main Street in Adstock. It features a timber frame with slight scantling, diagonal braces, and whitewashed brick infill. The roof is thatched and half-hipped to the left, with brick stacks on the gables and to the right of the center. The house is one-and-a-half storeys tall and has four irregular bays, with the right-hand bay projecting and gabled towards the street, creating an L-plan. There is a small square projection in the angle. The windows are irregular wooden casements, with leaded glass in the second bay from the left, which also has an upper window beneath a thatch eyebrow. A boarded door is located in the left-hand bay.
Local climate
The Olde Power 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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