The Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. Farmhouse.
The Old Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pale-timber-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Old Farmhouse, Hartley Court Road, Shinfield
- OS grid reference
- SU 701 687
- Coordinates
- 51.41384, -0.99203
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 17th century and has been altered and extended in the 18th century and late 19th century. The building features brick on the upper floors and painted render on the ground floor, topped with an old tile gabled and hipped roof. It is designed in an L-shape with the gable facing east and consists of two storeys and an attic. There is one chimney on the ridge and a larger chimney on the right side of the roof slope. A brick string course runs along the building.
On the south front, the gable on the left has one bay with 2-light casement windows, including a small-paned window in the attic. There is a 20th-century lean-to entry porch with a glazed door. To the right, a catslide roof extends down to the ground floor eaves level. The north front features three bays with 3-light 20th-century casement windows that have segmental heads, and a 2-light window in the centre with a 20th-century gabled entry porch below it.
Inside, the farmhouse contains a fine late 17th-century newel staircase, which has turned balusters, a large deep handrail, and balusters with carved dropped bosses, rising from the ground floor to the attic.
Local climate
The Old Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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