Castle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.
Castle Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- other-latch-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Castle Farmhouse, 9, Castle Square, Benson, OX10 6SD
- OS grid reference
- SU 616 917
- Coordinates
- 51.62114, -1.11017
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Farmhouse is a house dated 1696, located on the north side of Castle Square in Benson. The building features a 19th-century cross wing to the right and is constructed with a timber frame and painted brick infill, topped with a plain-tile roof and a brick stack. It is a single storey with an attic and has a three-window range that is positioned at right angles to the street.
The left return of the cross wing has a 20th-century panelled door with a flat hood above it. On the ground floor, there are two 20th-century casements. The centre of the attic features a flat-roofed dormer with a 12-pane sash window. There is a ridge stack located to the right of centre and an additional stack at the rear. The left return facing the road includes a 2-light casement on the ground floor and a gable end with a shaped hood mould. The first floor at the rear retains its timber frame.
Local climate
Castle 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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- 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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