Greenfield Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. A C17 Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Greenfield Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- leaning-tower-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Greenfield Farmhouse, Watlington, OX49 5HG
- OS grid reference
- SU 710 917
- Coordinates
- 51.62026, -0.97505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greenfield Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse, potentially with earlier origins, and refronted in the early 18th century. The front elevation is of Flemish bond brick, while the other walls are of flint rubble with brick dressings. The roof is tiled, with a brick stack. The building is arranged in an L-shape. It is two storeys high with a 5-window range. An early 20th-century porch and door replace the original round-arched entrance. The ground-floor windows are 19th-century horned sashes with segmental arches over them, constructed of brick with flat gauged arches. The first-floor windows are narrower sashes, also with gauged brick flat arches; a round arch with a keystone sits above the central first-floor sash. A moulded stone cornice runs along the top. The roof is gabled, with a ridge stack. A brick rear outshut adjoins a late 17th-century rear left wing, which is two storeys high and has a 3-window range. This wing is constructed of flint rubble with brick dressings and has a gabled tiled roof and a brick ridge stack. A 20th-century door is located on the left side wall, along with a moulded string course. A first-floor 2-light window has a gauged and moulded brick eared architrave with acanthus brackets. The interior includes some 18th-century panelled doors, a late 16th-century fireplace to the right, and a mid-18th-century panelled room to the left, featuring fluted pilasters flanking the fireplace and ogee-stopped chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The first floor has a roll-stopped beam to the left and likely a late 16th-century fireplace to the right. The roof features a butt-purlin design with obscured trusses at the front and a 3-bay queen-post roof at the rear.
Local climate
Greenfield Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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 — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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