The Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. Farmhouse, house. 3 related planning applications.

The Old Farmhouse

WRENN ID
gentle-vault-twilight
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cherwell
Constituency
Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 December 1955
Type
Farmhouse, house
Address
The Old Farmhouse, Paddock Farm Lane, Bodicote, OX15 4BT
OS grid reference
SP 459 379
Coordinates
52.03829, -1.3313
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house, dating from 1687, as indicated by the datestone TB/1687. It is constructed of regularly coursed ironstone rubble and features a steeply pitched Welsh slate roof with brick end stacks set on stone bases. The building is designed in an L-plan and consists of a single storey plus an attic, with a three-window range.

The entrance on the right side includes a six-panelled door that has a moulded wood surround and a stop-chamfered wooden lintel. To the left of the door, there is a small window and a casement window, both featuring stop-chamfered wooden lintels. The attic has three casement windows that are currently blocked. The wing to the right has a 20th-century casement window on the ground floor, also with a stop-chamfered wooden lintel. The attic includes a two-light window and a four-light wooden mullioned window, which has a wrought iron casement fastener. The building is finished with stone copings and ironstone quoins, and there is a 20th-century extension at the right end.

Inside, the farmhouse features stop-chamfered beams, a chamfered bressumer above the inglenook fireplace, a wide plank floor in the attic, plank doors, and a cellar.

Local climate

The Old Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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