Sycamore Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1986. Farmhouse.

Sycamore Farmhouse

WRENN ID
crooked-turret-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cherwell
Constituency
Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 October 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Sycamore Farmhouse, Fencott and Murcott
OS grid reference
SP 587 155
Coordinates
51.83565, -1.14913
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sycamore Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with some ashlar dressings and features an old plain-tile roof with rubble and brick gable stacks. The building has a two-unit through-passage plan and stands two storeys plus an attic high. The symmetrical front has three windows, with a central doorway beneath a small 19th or 20th-century sash window, and larger sashes in the outer bays, all featuring ashlar flat arches. The sashes likely replaced original casements. The roof includes brick stacks on rubble bases. To the right, there is a brick extension with a catslide roof at the front, displaying some late 18th or early 19th-century chequer brickwork. The rear of the main range has additional flat-arched sashes and a blocked central doorway. Inside, there are stop-chamfered spine beams, open fireplaces—one with a stop-chamfered bressumer, an inglenook seat, and a bread oven. The through passage has been incorporated into one of the rooms.

Local climate

Sycamore 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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