Christmas Common Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Farmhouse. 13 related planning applications.
Christmas Common Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- floating-flint-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Christmas Common Farmhouse, Watlington, OX49 5HL
- OS grid reference
- SU 713 932
- Coordinates
- 51.63314, -0.96987
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christmas Common Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse constructed from flint rubble with brick quoins and dressings, topped with an old tile roof. The building has an L-plan layout with a rear right wing and consists of two storeys and an attic, featuring a five-bay range. The entrance includes a 18th-century six-panelled door, two of which are glazed, set within an early 18th-century architrave adorned with carved brackets supporting a segmental hood. The windows are fitted with 20th-century two-light casements, and the first floor has flat arches over similar casements, along with a blocked window above the door. Roof dormers contain 20th-century casements, and the gabled roof is complemented by symmetrical end stacks. The rear wing is also two storeys high, with a two-window range made from similar materials and a gabled roof, along with a tile lean-to roof covering a brick dairy at the back.
Inside, the farmhouse features chamfered and stopped beams, timber-frame partitions, and six-panelled doors set in bolection-moulded architraves with pulvinated friezes. There is a four-panelled door leading to a cellar through a segmental-arched doorway. The central dog-leg staircase has a landing with a wreathed handrail and turned balusters on an open string, as well as a panelled dado. The landing is finished with a moulded cornice, and there are winder stairs leading to the original three-bay roof, which includes curved windbraces.
Local climate
Christmas Common 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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