Old Jordans Hostel is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. Hostel. 6 related planning applications.
Old Jordans Hostel
- WRENN ID
- ghost-vestry-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1958
- Type
- Hostel
- Address
- Old Jordans Hostel, Jordans Lane, Chalfont St. Giles, HP9 2SW
- OS grid reference
- SU 974 912
- Coordinates
- 51.61183, -0.59361
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Jordans Hostel is an 18th-century building with a wing at right angles designed by Fred Rowntree around 1920. It features a red brick exterior and a hipped old tile roof with dentilled eaves. The building is two storeys tall, with the south front displaying box sash windows in four bays, and a cross-casement window in the right-hand bay on the ground floor. The door is located in the third bay. The west elevation has first-floor casements and a central six-panel door set in a round-headed arch with an inner arch. The first floor has casements, with triple windows in the outer bays and paired windows in the central bay. There is a modern two-storey wing with dormers and a casement window. A tiled porch in the re-entrant angle is supported by fluted half-columns. This building was originally a farmhouse owned by William Russell, a prominent Quaker, in the 17th century and was used for meetings.
Local climate
Old Jordans Hostel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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