Brightwell Farm, Cowhouses Approximately 15 Metres East of Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. Cowhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Brightwell Farm, Cowhouses Approximately 15 Metres East of Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- guardian-banister-curlew
- 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
- Cowhouse
- Address
- Brightwell Farm, Cowhouses Approximately 15 Metres East of Farmhouse, OX49 5NP
- OS grid reference
- SU 654 950
- Coordinates
- 51.65001, -1.05572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brightwell Farm cowhouses, located approximately 15 meters east of the farmhouse, date from the 18th century and have been adapted for use as a gorge store and disused milking parlour. The structure features 20th-century weatherboarding over a timber frame, set on a limestone rubble base, and is topped with a gabled corrugated iron roof. It is a single-storey building with a five-window range, which includes 20th-century doors and window openings, two of which are blocked. Inside, there is a five-bay roof with clasped purlins, two collar-trusses on the left, and two pairs of very thin cruck blades on the right. To the left, there is a lower one-storey building constructed from similar materials, featuring an old-tile roof and jowled posts supporting a five-bay queen-post roof. This building is included for its group value with the farmhouse.
Local climate
Brightwell Farm, Cowhouses Approximately 15 Metres East of 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 80% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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