Proffitt's House is a Grade II* listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. A Stuart House. 3 related planning applications.

Proffitt's House

WRENN ID
shadowed-newel-vetch
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cherwell
Constituency
Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 December 1955
Type
House
Period
Stuart
Address
Proffitt's House, Miller's Lane, Hornton, OX15 6BS
OS grid reference
SP 393 450
Coordinates
52.1026, -1.42726
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Proffitt's House is a mid-17th century dwelling that combines a house and cottage into one. It is constructed from squared, coursed ironstone and features a steeply pitched thatched roof. The right gable is stone-coped and lacks a kneeler, with a base for a ball finial. The building has an altered stone end stack with a chamfered case and similar ridge stacks, one of which has a renewed blue brick shaft.

The layout consists of a 3-unit plan and a single-unit plan, with the entire structure being single storey plus attic and featuring a 4-window attic range. A common entrance passage, shared by the two dwellings, includes a 6-panelled door with a moulded wood surround and wood lintel. To the left of the entrance, there are two 4-light and one 7-light stone mullioned windows, while to the right, there is a 4-light stone mullioned window, all with hood moulds and label stops.

The attic features an eyebrow dormer with a 3-light metal casement in stone surrounds and wood lintel, along with two half-dormers that have 2- and 3-light metal casements with stone surrounds and wood lintels. On the right side of the attic floor, there is a 3-light stone mullioned window.

Historian Wood-Jones notes that the design of the two buildings sharing a common entrance passage to a common yard suggests a familial connection, indicating that separate dwellings were built for members of the same family on the original family plot. Proffitt's House contains two separate fireplaces that back onto the common entrance passage. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Proffitt's House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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