Wretchwick Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Wretchwick Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rusted-pedestal-weasel
- 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
- Wretchwick Farmhouse, A41, Ambrosden, OX25 2JS
- OS grid reference
- SP 597 205
- Coordinates
- 51.88063, -1.13268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wretchwick Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 18th century and late 18th to early 19th century. It is built of limestone rubble with brick dressings and some wooden lintels, topped with an old plain-tile roof featuring brick gable stacks. The building has an L-plan and consists of two storeys plus an attic. The front has five windows and was originally symmetrical, featuring a brick storey band. It retains brick jambs for the six-pane sashes on the first floor, except for the window on the extreme right, which has a wider tripartite sash. On the ground floor, there is evidence of four original windows with brick flat arches, but currently, there are two large tripartite sashes with wooden lintels flanking a central 20th-century porch. The roof includes three gabled roof dormers with leaded casements. There is an outshut against the right gable wall that has a round window. A later rear wing extends from the left end and is in a similar style. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Wretchwick 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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