Lower Town Farmhouse and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. Farmhouse. 7 related planning applications.
Lower Town Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- veiled-postern-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Town Farmhouse and Attached Barn, High Street, Clifton Hampden, OX14 3EQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 543 952
- Coordinates
- 51.65381, -1.21597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Town Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that has been converted into a house, with a front range built in 1771, as indicated by the brickwork. The building features a limestone uncoursed rubble plinth and red brick with flared headers in Flemish bond, topped by an old plain-tile roof and brick end stacks. It has a two-unit plan, is two storeys high with an attic, and has a three-window range. The entrance is a sash door located in the center of a gabled brick porch. All openings have three-light wood casements with segmental brick heads, except for a two-light wood casement with a segmental brick head at the center of the first floor. There is a flat brick band between the ground and first floors and two gabled dormers.
At the rear, there is a 17th-century cross-wing made of large timber framing with brick infill, also with an old plain-tile roof. This section is single storey with an attic and has a four-window range. The interior has not been inspected. Attached to the end of the cross-wing is a barn constructed from timber framing with weatherboarding and an old plain-tile roof.
Local climate
Lower Town Farmhouse and Attached Barn 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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