Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. A C17 Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- long-moulding-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse, Ploughley Road, Arncott, OX25 1NY
- OS grid reference
- SP 609 182
- Coordinates
- 51.85932, -1.11693
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely served as the original manor house, dating from 1679 as indicated by a datestone. It was remodelled, probably in the early 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared limestone rubble with some wooden lintels and features a plain-tile roof, partly old, with rubble and brick stacks. It has an L-plan layout and consists of two storeys and one storey plus an attic.
The front of the house has been remodelled and features three windows. There is a central four-panel door below a nine-pane casement, with 18-pane horizontal-sliding sashes in the outer bays on both floors. All openings are framed with wide render architraves, and the central first-floor window is flanked by re-set stones inscribed with "1679" and "S/HE". A gable stack is located to the right.
The left end of the building leads to a lower long rear wing, which contains an additional entrance and casements with stop-chamfered lintels. This wing also features two-light gabled dormers and, in the end bay, a half-dormer loft door above a garage door. At the rear of the main range, in the angle with the rear wing, there is a gabled stair projection that includes a small casement.
A 17th-century double stack with a rubble base and diagonal brick shafts rises from the lower ridge at the junction of the ranges, while the lower wing has a large ridge stack made of much old narrow brick. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Manor 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 2009
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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