The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1984. Rectory. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- vast-hinge-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1984
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Chenies, WD3 6ED
- OS grid reference
- TQ 021 980
- Coordinates
- 51.67184, -0.52422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is an early 19th-century former rectory house located in Chenies Village. It features three bays and two storeys, constructed of yellow stock brick. The building has moulded projecting flat eaves that extend to a hipped slate roof. The corners of the structure are accentuated with pilaster piers. The windows are recessed barred sashes with panelled reveals, which are reeded on the outer side. A central Doric porch with an entablature is present, along with a bay window on the left side. To the left, there is a colourwashed service wing that is set back and also has a slate roof.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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