Temple Farmhouse, Barn And Farm Building Approximately 15 Metres South

SP 5301 SANDFORD-0N-THAMES 10/111 Temple Farmhouse, barn farm 18/07/63 building approx 15 metres S. (Formerly listed as Barn at Temple Farm) GV II

Barn and farm building, now hall and studio. C18 with C15 elements. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; plain-tile and Welsh slate roofs with weatherboarded gables. 2 ranges at right-angles linked by a short lower range. Barn range of 6-bays, 5 of which are probably early C18 with central porch, full-height opposed doors and slit windows. End bay is part of a medieval building, probably the east end of a chapel. In the north wall a C15 4-centre arched doorway cuts into the 2-course weathering of an earlier plinth, with a mutilated window above. The east gable wall, rising from a low plinth, contains the blocked lower part of a 3-light window with wide central light, possibly C15. A sill-level string returns around a deep buttress to right. Doorways are now blocked and porch is flanked by C20 lean-to structures. The 3-bay building linked to the barn has a small central doorway with a dormer door above, and blocked slit windows. A quoin to left is inscribed WC/1751. Interiors: Barn structure is now cased and not visible. 3-bay building has 2 heavy trusses with curved under-principals and 2 rows of trenched purlins. 2 bays of the loft floor survive. The building is on the site of a preceptory of The Knights Templars, later transfered to The Knights Hospitallers of St. John. (V.C.H. Oxfordshire V, p.268; Buildings of England, Oxfordshire, p.750.)

Listing NGR: SP5318001843