Manor Farmhouse and Attached Farm Building is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1988. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.

Manor Farmhouse and Attached Farm Building

WRENN ID
shifting-sill-tide
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
Manor Farmhouse and Attached Farm Building, Somerton Road, Ardley, OX27 7NS
OS grid reference
SP 540 274
Coordinates
51.94282, -1.21502
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor Farmhouse, now a house, dates from the early to mid 18th century and incorporates earlier elements. It is constructed of limestone rubble and coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings, featuring concrete-pantile and Welsh-slate roofs with stone and brick stacks. The building has a three-unit plan with a rear outshut and stands two storeys plus an attic high.

The front has four windows, with the three bays to the left made of coursed stone. These bays have a symmetrical arrangement of sash windows, with a central doorway located below a blocked window. All openings feature stone flat arches; the entrance has a folding six-panel door with an overlight, and the windows generally have 12-pane sashes, except for the one to the right of the door, which has been widened to accommodate a 16-pane sash. Small cellar windows are located beside the entrance steps. The fourth bay, made of rubble and likely incorporating 17th-century work, has 16-pane 19th-century sash windows at a lower level. The continuous hipped roof has end stacks and an additional stack at the rear, all with stone bases.

At the rear, there is a wide contemporary outshut with altered openings. Attached to the right is a six-bay farm building that breaks forward at an angle and has a corrugated-asbestos roof, half hipped to the left. The front of this building features a loft door, while the rear includes stable doors and windows, along with another loft door leading to a granary.

Inside the farmhouse, there is a large open fireplace and a stop-chamfered beam in the lower bay, along with much mid-18th-century joinery, including two half-panelled rooms and a first-floor room with complete fielded panelling. Both the house and the farm building have butt-purlin roofs.

Local climate

Manor Farmhouse and Attached Farm Building 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 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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