Mead Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1988. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.

Mead Farmhouse

WRENN ID
grey-sandstone-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cherwell
Constituency
Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 February 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Mead Farmhouse, Church Lane, Yarnton, OX5 1PY
OS grid reference
SP 478 115
Coordinates
51.8003, -1.30687
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mead Farmhouse comprises a mid-17th to late-17th century range to the left, and a mid-18th century main range. The farmhouse is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with gabled stone slate roofs. It has end stacks of stone finished in brick and a brick ridge stack.

The main range is symmetrical, featuring three bays and a three-window frontage. A mid-19th century two-storey porch sits centrally, with a chamfered round-arched doorway and 20th-century double doors. Above the doorway is a canted oriel window with leaded lights. Late 19th or early 20th century two-light casements are set beneath timber lintels. Two 18th-century gabled roof dormers contain two-light leaded casements. The left range is of similar construction, also two storeys with a two-window range. It features a 17th-century ashlar jamb around a 18th-century two-light leaded casement to the left, along with a 20th-century door and windows beneath timber lintels. A one-storey service wing, also 18th century, connects to the left. A mid-18th century service wing extends to the rear, built of similar materials and incorporating a tall 18th-century two-light leaded casement and a brick ridge stack.

Internally, the farmhouse includes panelled shutters and doors, and a beam and remodelled open fireplace to the right.

Local climate

Mead Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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