Leys Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1988. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Leys Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stark-pinnacle-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Leys Farmhouse, Main Street, Claydon with Clattercot, OX17 1EP
- OS grid reference
- SP 457 500
- Coordinates
- 52.14686, -1.33281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leys Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse that has undergone some 20th-century alterations. It is constructed from ironstone ashlar and features a steeply pitched roof covered with 20th-century tiles. The gables are stone-coped and have moulded kneelers. There are brick and renewed stone stacks at either end of the building. The farmhouse is designed in an L-plan and has two storeys plus an attic, with a five-window range.
The central entrance includes a plank door and a 20th-century porch, flanked by pairs of renewed 20th-century sash windows with glazing bars, all set beneath stone flat arches. The first floor has five similar windows. A moulded and coved stone eaves cornice runs along the top of the walls. At the rear, there is a wing.
Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace, moulded stone fireplaces with four-centred heads, part of a 17th-century staircase, and a purlin roof. The farmhouse was once occupied by the Knibb family.
Local climate
Leys 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 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- 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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