Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. A C16 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Church Farmhouse

WRENN ID
half-remnant-vetch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1954
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Church Farmhouse, First Turn, OX2 8AH
OS grid reference
SP 496 097
Coordinates
51.7846, -1.28187
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century. It consists of a northeast-southwest range that faces southeast, with a northwest wing that has a later pent roof added to its northeast side. In the west angle, there is a 19th-century addition. The 16th-century range is two storeys high, built of coursed rubble with a stone slate roof and features two red brick end chimneys, one of which on the southwest is set on a moulded stone base and extends down the outside of the house. The southeast face has three modern casement windows with two lights on the first floor, while the ground floor has similar windows and an original stone doorway with a four-centred arch, moulded stop-chamfered jambs, and blank shields in the spandrels. The 19th-century addition has a Welsh slate roof and features a two-storeyed, three-sided stone bay on a brick base at the southwest end, with two gables and modern sash windows on its northwest face. The pent roof on the northeast side has two gabled dormers of unequal size.

Inside, the south ground floor room includes an original stone fireplace with Ionic oak pilasters and an oak overmantel with three bays, as well as some early 17th-century panelling used as a dado. The northeast wall of the kitchen in the northwest wing has recently exposed original wattle and daub filling. The first floor has an original stone fireplace that now has a modern wood surround and shelf.

Local climate

Church 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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