Almshouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. House. 2 related planning applications.
Almshouse Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- western-wall-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Almshouse Farmhouse, High Street, Harwell, OX11 0ET
- OS grid reference
- SU 491 891
- Coordinates
- 51.59946, -1.29139
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Almshouse Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It features a brick plinth and is constructed of grey brick with red brick dressings, topped by an old plain-tile hipped roof with a brick ridge stack on the left side. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a four-window arrangement that is set at right angles to the street.
To the right of the center, there is a six-panel part-glazed door with a flat hood supported by brackets. The ground and first floors on the right side have segmental-headed wooden cross-windows, which are adorned with segmental brick heads. On the left side of the ground floor, there is a segmental-headed 12-pane unhorned sash window, also with a segmental brick head. The rest of the windows follow a regular pattern with segmental-headed blind panels. A flat brick band runs between the ground and first floors, and there is a shaped brick cornice at the eaves.
In the center of the roof, there is a 20th-century gabled full dormer that contains a two-light casement. The left side of the building, which faces the street, also has a two-storey, four-window range. It features segmental-headed 12-pane unhorned sashes with segmental brick heads on the ground floor, positioned to the left and right of the center. There is a flat brick band between the ground and first floors, with segmental heads above the first-floor windows on either side of the center. The remaining windows have segmental-headed blind panels.
On the right side of the building, there is a basket arch-headed wooden cross-window with leaded lights situated between the ground and first floors on the right. A basket-arched blind panel is located to the left. The interior of the farmhouse has not been inspected.
Local climate
Almshouse 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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