Merton Grounds Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. A C18 Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Merton Grounds Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- secret-arch-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Merton Grounds Farmhouse, OX25 2NS
- OS grid reference
- SP 579 190
- Coordinates
- 51.8674, -1.15996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Merton Grounds Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid to late 18th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble with some ashlar dressings, and has a concrete pantile roof with a brick gable stack. The building follows a 3-unit plan with outshuts. The symmetrical front elevation has four windows, projecting forward in the taller, two-bay central section. Displaying ashlar storey bands, the lower portion extends across the outer bays. All windows have renewed cross casements. The main roof is hipped to the front, with a large rebuilt stack on the rear gable, and continues as a catslide over the outer bays and the rear outshut, returning to the front above the first-floor windows of the outer bays. A brick dentil eaves course survives on the sides and rear, but has been altered on the front.
Local climate
Merton Grounds 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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