The Tithe House and Attached Walls and Stable is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1966. House. 13 related planning applications.
The Tithe House and Attached Walls and Stable
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Tithe House and Attached Walls and Stable, 15, Church Street, Marcham, OX13 6NP
- OS grid reference
- SU 452 967
- Coordinates
- 51.66772, -1.34763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse, now a house, dating back to around 1580, with a later extension of 1646 when the house was remodelled. The front and left side walls are rendered, while the left wing retains original timber framing with arch braces and 18th-century brick infill to the rear. The right extension is of limestone rubble. The roof is gabled and hipped, covered in stone slate with a late 16th-century ridge stack to the left, finished in brick, and a similar stack at the right end. The house is in an L-shape, with a rear left wing.
The front facade has a 19th-century six-panelled door and late 19th-century two- and three-light casement windows. A mid-17th-century three-light stone mullioned window with a cavetto-moulded frame is positioned at the top right. A graffito date of 1646 is visible on a quoin on the right side wall, above a mid-17th-century stone cavetto-moulded window that is now blocked. On the rear, there are 18th-century two-light leaded casements above a mid-17th-century three-light stone-mullioned and transomed window with a cavetto-moulded frame.
Inside, the room to the right has dado panelling, a bolection-moulded fireplace and overmantel panel dating from around 1720. The left wing, dating to around 1580, was remodelled in the mid-17th century. One room features chamfered beams, a timber-framed lateral partition with a chamfered urn-stopped doorframe, and a stone chamfered fireplace with a cyma-moulded overmantle, inscribed with the date "RS 1580 TS”. A mid-17th-century ovolo-moulded urn-stopped doorframe is located to the right. A late 16th-century room behind the stack contains quartered stop-chamfered beams. A mid-17th century newel staircase, originally located to the right of the stack, was remodelled in the 20th century but retains original treads in the attic. The first floor has stop-chamfered beams and 17th-century plank doors set in stop-chamfered doorframes. Two rooms at the rear of the stack are divided by a timber-framed partition. A timber-framed wall, originally external to the 1580 building, adjoins the mid-17th-century extension. The late 16th-century stack has a collar truss to the front and a closed timber truss to the rear. A mid-17th-century collar truss with curved windbraces is also present to the right.
The ancillary buildings include a through-entry and stable to the right, built of uncoursed limestone rubble with render and weatherboarding over the entry, and a gabled stone slate roof. The through-entry has 20th-century double doors, a 17th-century plank door, and a stone chamfered alcove to the right. The stables incorporate an ancient type of hewn oak staircase leading to a loft, and a four-bay queen-post roof with curved braces and windbraces at the right.
Attached to the house are limestone rubble walls. One wall, approximately 60 meters long, runs west from the rear left corner of the house. A taller, approximately 3-meter high wall of limestone rubble runs approximately 80 meters north from the right corner of the stable, and is attached to a dovecote. The former wall of a barn, which ran approximately 20 meters west and met a medieval offset buttress, originated from the rear right corner of the stable and was demolished in the early 20th century. The property was shown on an 1818 map as a parsonage.
Local climate
The Tithe House and Attached Walls and Stable 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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