Townsend Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Farmhouse. 8 related planning applications.
Townsend Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- half-barrel-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Townsend Farmhouse, Waterperry with Thomley, OX33 1LG
- OS grid reference
- SP 622 069
- Coordinates
- 51.75781, -1.09901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townsend Farmhouse is a late 18th or early 19th century farmhouse built of purple brick with red gauged-brick arches, and has a Welsh-slate roof and brick stacks. It is a double-depth plan building with a semi-basement level, and two storeys. The front elevation has three windows, featuring 16-pane sashes, with a longer sash on the right-hand side at ground floor. The left return wall also possesses similar sashes, along with a wooden porch with stone steps and a wrought-iron handrail. The roof is hipped and has two spans. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Townsend 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 78% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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