Oldhouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. House.

Oldhouse Farmhouse

WRENN ID
carved-pier-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 1984
Type
House
Address
Oldhouse Farmhouse, Dorstone
OS grid reference
SO 305 405
Coordinates
52.05855, -3.01395
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Oldhouse Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 17th century, with later additions and alterations made in the 18th century, 19th century, and in 1977. It features a timber-frame structure with wattle-and-daub infill, along with rubble and brick, topped by a concrete tile roof. The building is a long house type, oriented east to west, with a two-framed bay house at the west end and a 19th-century extension to the west. There is a stack at the west end of the original house, which includes an adjoining spiral staircase, and a former cowhouse at the east end, although this is not included in the listing.

The farmhouse has two storeys, with a 20th-century plate glass casement window to the left of the 19th-century bay. The original house has two 20th-century plate glass casements, and on the ground floor, there is a 2-light casement to the left, a porch with a lean-to roof, and two additional 2-light casements. The rear elevation displays framing with two square panels high on the original house, with rubble around the stack. Inside, there is a door leading from the house to the cowhouse, which is likely original, and the house features stopped and chamfered beams.

Local climate

Oldhouse Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% 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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