The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1955. House. 1 related planning application.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
roaming-passage-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1955
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory, Bradenham, HP14 4HD
OS grid reference
SU 826 966
Coordinates
51.66232, -0.80653
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a house that was formerly a rectory, believed to have been built in 1726 according to a plaque. It underwent alterations in the late 18th to early 19th century and was extended in the early 20th century. The building is constructed of brick and features an eaves cornice with narrow dentils and a hipped roof covered in old tiles. It has a double pile design with two storeys, a basement, and an attic.

The west front is made of header brick and has a taller central section with a shallow gable and prominent flanking chimneys. The chimneys are detailed with flint quoins and rectangular shafts that have band courses and offset heads. Between the chimneys is a central bay containing a door, an arched first-floor sash window, and an altered stone plaque, flanked by narrow bays with 2-pane sashes, which are blind on the first floor, and blind square windows in the attic. The outer windows feature flat brick arches, while the central first-floor window has a gauged brick arch and jambs set in a rusticated flint surround with a stone keyblock. There is a whitewashed stone sill course and a band course below the first-floor windows. The door is a six-panel design with a segmental radiating fanlight and is sheltered by a wooden porch supported by Doric columns and a cornice hood, accessed by five stone steps.

The south front has two bays with large tripartite sash windows on the ground floor, 4-pane sashes above, and two gabled dormers with paired barred wooden casements. The basement features cambered arches, with the left side having a 20th-century barred wooden casement and the right side over a blind opening. There is a central tall narrow doorway with rusticated flint jambs and a semi-circular arch, now fitted with a 20th-century glazed door and fanlight. Above this is a false window with a flat-headed flint surround. To the right, there is a matching 20th-century bay with French doors and a flint surround above a 4-pane sash window.

The north front displays irregular brickwork, 4-pane sashes, a central basement door, and an arched staircase window, along with leaded casements in the basement and other later openings. The interior has been significantly altered in the early 19th century.

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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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