Vicar's Bottom Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Vicar's Bottom Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- weathered-porch-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Vicar's Bottom Farmhouse, Lewknor, HP14 3YQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 739 956
- Coordinates
- 51.65481, -0.93263
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vicar's Bottom Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1730. It is shown on the Ordnance Survey map as Lower Vicar Farm. The front is constructed of Flemish bond brick with flared headers, while the left gable wall features exposed timber framing. The building has an old tile roof and brick stacks, and it is designed in an L-plan with a rear left wing.
The farmhouse has two storeys and an attic, with a three-window range. There are segmental arches over an 18th-century plank door, which is set in a beaded architrave and has a 20th-century porch. To the right of the door, there is a blocked door, and late 19th-century two-light casements are present. The first floor features 20th-century leaded casements. The gabled roof has symmetrical brick end stacks, with the right external stack containing a flint rubble bread oven.
At the rear, there is an outshut made of flint rubble that adjoins the rear wing, which is also two storeys and has a two-window range. This wing is constructed of flint with brick dressings and has a gabled old tile roof, with a plank door located to the right. The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest.
Local climate
Vicar's Bottom 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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