The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. House.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
dim-finial-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1951
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory, Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell
OS grid reference
SP 794 124
Coordinates
51.80486, -0.84935
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a house dating from the 18th century, which incorporates parts of a 16th-century structure. It features painted roughcast walls and a hipped tiled roof with a brick chimney located to the right of the center. The rear slope has three dormers, while the front displays a moulded brick eaves cornice and bracketed eaves at the rear. The building is two storeys high with an attic. The front elevation includes a large two-storey semicircular central projection that has a six-panel door, with two upper glazed panels, at the ground floor and a sash window above. To the right, there is one bay of sash windows, all set within architrave surrounds, and three small triangular windows to the left. The rear elevation features a central two-storey canted bay with sash windows, flanked on the first floor by wide four-pane sashes, and two sash windows to the right on the ground floor. A service wing is located at the northern end and includes a second chimney. Inside, the entrance hall boasts a richly moulded ceiling beam and a bracket dated 1582 with the initials M.I. The building was damaged by fire and underwent repairs in 1983.

Local climate

The Old Rectory receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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