College Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1987. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
College Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-arch-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- College Farmhouse, Garford, OX13 5PF
- OS grid reference
- SU 424 959
- Coordinates
- 51.66072, -1.38733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
College Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse, now a house, with alterations made around 1904 when the right-hand bay was truncated. The house is constructed of uncoursed limestone rubble with a gabled stone slate roof and a 20th-century concrete block chimney. Originally a 3-unit lobby-entry plan, it is now a 2-unit layout. The two-storey, 3-window front has a timber lintel over a central 20th-century plank door. A 20th-century two-light casement sits to the right, and a wood-mullioned and transomed ovolo-moulded 4-light window is to the left, both with timber lintels. Timber lintels also top the blocked central first-floor window and flanking 19th-century three-light casements. The main entrance is now at the rear. An L-shaped extension built in 1904, which encloses the rear yard, is not of architectural note. Inside, the room to the right has a cased beam, a chamfered bressumer over the open fireplace, and a full set of chamfered and stopped beam and joists. To the left are a central spiral staircase rising to the first floor and an attic. The first floor has ogee-stopped chamfered beams, while the attic features 17th-century plank doors with fittings and a 5-bay collar truss roof with butt purlins. The demolition of the original right bay is evident from the 1904 extension.
Local climate
College Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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