Laurel Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1951. Farmhouse.
Laurel Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- leaning-rafter-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Laurel Farmhouse, Islip Road, Bletchingdon, OX5 3DP
- OS grid reference
- SP 503 174
- Coordinates
- 51.85377, -1.26989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the mid-18th century. The front eaves were raised in the early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a gabled Welsh slate roof, with a late 19th-century brick ridge stack and end stacks made of stone finished in brick. The building has an L-plan with a rear right wing and is two storeys high, with a three-window range. There is a timber lintel above the central early 19th-century six-panelled door, and timber lintels over early 19th-century sash windows that have glazing bars. The house also includes 20th-century gabled roof dormers. A stair-turret adjoins the rear wing, which has early 19th-century eight-pane sash windows to the left. The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest.
Local climate
Laurel 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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