Middle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Middle Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tangled-bailey-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Middle Farmhouse, Church Lane, Brightwell-Cum-Sotwell, OX10 0SD
- OS grid reference
- SU 579 908
- Coordinates
- 51.61378, -1.16448
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Middle Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, probably dating from the late 16th century with 20th-century alterations. The ground floor is finished in painted brick, with some timber framing on the right side. The first floor features angle-braced timber framing with painted brick infill, topped by a thatched roof and a brick stack on the left. The building is two stories high and has a two-window range that is set at right angles to the lane. The windows have irregular placements, with 2-light leaded casements, except for a 3-light leaded casement on the first floor to the right. There is a 20th-century door with a lean-to porch at the rear and 20th-century stairs inside. The roof construction is of queen post design. The ground floor has an open fireplace on the left with a painted frieze above, likely from the 17th century, and there is also an open fireplace on the first floor to the left. The ground floor features chamfered spine beams and joists with ogee end stops. To the left, there is a single-storey addition with a hipped thatched roof.
Local climate
Middle 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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