Magpie Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. A C16 Farmhouse.
Magpie Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- strange-marble-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Magpie Farmhouse, Frilsham
- OS grid reference
- SU 554 731
- Coordinates
- 51.45502, -1.203
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Magpie Farmhouse is an early 16th-century farmhouse that has been refaced in the 19th century and has a 20th-century addition at the rear. The building is timber framed with a later facing of red brick featuring grey headers. It has an old tile roof with a catslide over the outshot at the rear. On the south side, there are three 19th-century tile-hung gabled dormers with 3-light casements, along with end stacks and an off-centre stack to the right. The former open hall consists of three framed bays with later alterations and the house is 1.5 storeys high. The ground floor has three 3-light casements with segmental heads, and there is a boarded door with a segmental head located between the second and third windows from the left. Inside, there are four pairs of cruck blades, an inserted floor, and a chimney dating from around 1600, along with smoke blackened roof timbers.
Local climate
Magpie Farmhouse 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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