Oldhouse Farmhouse and Attached Range of Agricultural Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Oldhouse Farmhouse and Attached Range of Agricultural Buildings

WRENN ID
heavy-steel-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 November 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Oldhouse Farmhouse and Attached Range of Agricultural Buildings, Michaelchurch Escley, HR2 0LA
OS grid reference
SO 294 376
Coordinates
52.03302, -3.03
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Oldhouse Farmhouse and the attached range of agricultural buildings date from probably the late 16th century to the late 17th century, with some alterations made in the 19th and mid-20th centuries. The buildings are constructed of rubble roughcast, with slate and corrugated iron roofs and brick end stacks. The domestic part, located to the east, features a two-cell plan and a staircase projection at the rear. It is two storeys high with two windows on the south elevation, which is covered in roughcast. The windows are mid-20th century metal casements, with one on the ground floor to the west and two on the first floor. There is a contemporary ledged door to the east.

The western part consists of a barn, stable, and cow house range made of dry stone rubble, topped with a corrugated iron roof. This section is also two storeys high and likely has four structural bays. It features three small square shuttered windows or pitch-holes on the upper floor and three evenly spaced ledged doors from the 19th century, with the eastern door positioned closely against the junction with the domestic part. There is a low entrance in the west gable end, measuring just over 4 feet 6 inches high.

Inside the domestic part, the walls are very thick with splayed window openings, and the floors are flagged. A plank and muntin screen with a four-centred opening at its north end serves as a partition wall between the 20th-century front door and the casement. A winding rubble staircase with oak treads is located on the north side of the west fireplace, illuminated by a small oak-pegged single light window with lead came. The interior of the west range contains two trusses with machine-cut 19th-century king posts and struts at the end farthest from the domestic part, while the intervening section is inaccessible. Beneath this area is a cow house, accessible through the low door in the west gable end. Rubble hoods are present on the stacks and above a small oak diamond section mullioned window on the northeast side of the west range, which retains the center two of four mullions.

Local climate

Oldhouse Farmhouse and Attached Range of Agricultural Buildings receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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