Chartersfield Hall (Shown on Os Maps As Wyfold Cottage) is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1993. House.
Chartersfield Hall (Shown on Os Maps As Wyfold Cottage)
- WRENN ID
- ruined-keep-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chartersfield Hall (Shown on Os Maps As Wyfold Cottage), Checkendon
- OS grid reference
- SU 682 819
- Coordinates
- 51.53213, -1.01782
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chartersfield Hall, also known as Wyfold Cottage on Ordnance Survey maps, is likely the former estate bailiff's house, built between 1872 and 1878 by George Somers Clarke the elder for Edward Hermon, a cotton manufacturer. The building is constructed of English-bond red brick featuring blue brick diapering, stone dressings, and some timber-framing. It has a plain tile roof with stone coping on the gable ends and crested ridge-tiles. The brick lateral and axial stacks have tall shafts with corbelled brick caps and strings.
The hall displays an asymmetrical design in a robust Tudor-Gothic style and consists of two storeys. The entrance front features a large projecting lateral stack on the right adorned with brick diaperwork and small fire-windows, along with set-offs. The upper section has stone weathering that incorporates a gablet with an armorial device. To the left, there is a lean-to porch with a wooden arcaded front on a low wall.
The left side of the building has two staggered gables; the left one projects while the right one features open bracing, timber-framing, and jetties, with what appears to be an oven projection below. The right return also has a braced and timber-framed gable that jetties over a stone bay window on the ground floor, with the ground floor projecting and covered by a lean-to roof. At the rear, there is a small single-storey service wing.
While the interior has not been recorded, the room to the right of the main entrance contains a wide fireplace with a low moulded segmental arch and two fire-windows.
Local climate
Chartersfield Hall (Shown on Os Maps As Wyfold Cottage) 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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