Sundial Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Sundial Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- brooding-clay-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sundial Farmhouse, Main Street, Wroxton, OX15 6PT
- OS grid reference
- SP 413 418
- Coordinates
- 52.07324, -1.3979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sundial Farmhouse is a house that originated in the 17th century and was refronted in the 18th century. The front elevation is made of ironstone ashlar, and it has a 20th-century tiled roof with stone-coped gables. The building features three partly rebuilt stone ridge and end stacks with brick shafts. It has a three-unit plan and stands two storeys tall with a three-window range. The entrance, located to the left, has a fielded six-panel door with two glazed panels and a 20th-century opening with a keyblock head. There are two similar windows to the right and three similar windows on the first floor. Above the first floor, there is a flat band and a shallow stone parapet. At the rear, there is a gabled two-storey staircase turret.
Inside, the farmhouse includes an inglenook fireplace with a stop-chamfered bressumer, and the present kitchen features a stone fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. The interior also has stop-chamfered and chamfered beams, a closed-well staircase, and two-panelled 19th-century doors alongside 17th and 18th-century panelled doors with mouldings and blacksmith-made wrought-iron fasteners and hinges. The floors are made of stone flags. The cellar contains a two-light flat-splay stone mullioned window with iron bars, a chamfered beam, and a stone flag floor with a drainage channel. The roof construction is through-purlin.
Local climate
Sundial Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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