The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1984. A C19 House, former rectory. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- tenth-soffit-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1984
- Type
- House, former rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Main Street, Preston Bissett, MK18 4LU
- OS grid reference
- SP 658 299
- Coordinates
- 51.96434, -1.04317
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house, formerly the rectory, built in 1840. It is constructed of colourwashed render with a slate roof and brick stacks. The design is in the Tudor style. The house is two storeys high and has three bays. It has barred casement windows. The outer bays feature shallow pitched gables with stepped bases and square traceried panels in the centre. The ground floor has canted bay windows, and the first floor has paired casement windows with pointed arched top lights and flat Tudor hoodmoulds. A single light with a hoodmould is located centrally on the first floor. The centre bay projects slightly and has a four-centred arch with a hoodmould, carved head stops, and double-glazed barred doors. The north and south sides have similar first-floor windows and wooden cross windows with barred lights and hoodmoulds on the ground floor.
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 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 — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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