Fleet Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. Farmhouse. 9 related planning applications.
Fleet Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- tired-bonework-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fleet Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding, Adderbury, OX17 3NJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 477 356
- Coordinates
- 52.01762, -1.30543
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fleet Farmhouse and the attached outbuilding are a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century, built in two stages. The structure is made of coursed squared marlstone with wooden lintels and features a Welsh-slate roof with rebuilt stone stacks. It has a T-plan layout, standing two storeys plus an attic.
The front has four windows, with the two bays on the left being taller. In the second bay, there is an arched 19th-century door below a renewed three-light casement, while the first bay has a blocked first-floor window. The third and fourth bays also have renewed casements on both floors, along with a blocked stair window. The steep-pitched roof has gable parapets and projecting moulded kneelers, with a large stack at the junction of the different levels.
The left gable wall and the rear of the taller section have additional renewed casements but still retain two-light stone-mullioned cellar windows. The right gable features an old leaded casement, and the rear of the lower section has four more three-light windows, three of which have leaded glazing. The rear doorway, which is now the main entrance, has reeded panel mouldings dating from around 1800. The lower rear wing has a similar gable parapet with a stone-based stack, but it contains 20th-century windows and first-floor dormers.
The outbuilding to the right of the main farmhouse connects to Sydenham House and includes a small doorway and a two-light casement. At the rear, there is a larger open entry along with an old three-light casement featuring splayed mullions and lattice glazing. Inside, the farmhouse has stop-chamfered cross beams, a large inglenook fireplace with a chamfered bressumer and a bread oven, as well as some 18th-century panelled doors and shutters.
Local climate
Fleet Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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- Related listed building consents — 9 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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