Henwood Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Henwood Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sharp-sill-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Henwood Farmhouse, Cumnor, OX1 5JX
- OS grid reference
- SP 472 028
- Coordinates
- 51.72258, -1.31681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Henwood Farmhouse is a building with a complex history, incorporating elements from the 17th century, rebuilt in the mid-18th century, and with a front facade dating from around 1840. It is constructed from uncoursed limestone rubble with brick quoins and dressings. The front of the house has a roughcast finish, while the rear right wing, originally timber-framed, retains an exposed framed truss in its rear gable. The front has a half-hipped tile roof, while the rear wing features an M-shaped half-hipped roof with old tiles; brick rear lateral stacks and a right-end stack are also present.
The house is arranged with a double-depth plan and has two storeys, with a three-window front. The mid-19th century front features a glazed door, a timber porch, eight-pane sashes, and a narrow margin-light sash above the door, all set within raised rendered architraves. A small, late 18th century service block of brick with a gabled old tile roof is located at the rear.
Inside, the mid-18th century staircase is a straight-flight design, and the flanking rooms have boxed beams. The 17th century wing to the rear right displays a chamfered beam and a chamfered bressumer above an open fireplace in the ground-floor room. The roof was not inspected.
Local climate
Henwood 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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