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

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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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