The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. House.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- muted-iron-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, School End, Great Horwood
- OS grid reference
- SP 770 312
- Coordinates
- 51.97448, -0.88038
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house dating from the 17th century, which was re-fronted in the 18th century and extended at the rear. The right-hand gable features timber framing, while the front is constructed of irregular red and vitreous bricks, accented with red brick quoins and window surrounds. The left gable is rendered. The roof has two spans with a shallow pitch on the lower part of the front, and there is a central chimney stack made of thin 17th-century brick. The building has two storeys and five small bays, with 19th-century paired wooden casements that have segmental heads. The central lobby entry includes a six-panelled door set in panelled reveals, framed by an early 19th-century reeded surround with corner roundels and a small moulded cornice. At the rear, there is one leaded casement window. Inside, the two front rooms feature 18th-century panelling and wooden architrave surrounds around the fireplaces, which have moulded cornice mantelpieces. The left room has plain panels and a small moulded cornice, while the right room has moulded panelling, an overmantel, a dentil cornice, and a corner fireplace.
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 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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