Owlscote Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. A C17 Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Owlscote Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- carved-mortar-dawn
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Owlscote Manor Farmhouse, High Street, Upton, OX11 9JE
- OS grid reference
- SU 515 868
- Coordinates
- 51.57774, -1.25761
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Owlscote Manor Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the mid 17th century with a front added in the 18th century. It is constructed of red brick with flared headers in Flemish bond and has an old plain-tile roof that is hipped to the left. The building features a central brick ridge stack and an additional stack to the right. The layout is likely a two-unit lobby-entry plan.
The farmhouse is two stories high and has a two-window range. There is a plank door in the center with a segmental brick head and a flat hood above it. On either side of the door, there are modern three-light casements with segmental brick heads. The first floor also has modern three-light casements on the left and right. A painted wood dentil cornice runs along the eaves.
To the right is a wing from the 17th century, which is rendered and likely built on timber framing. The upper part features large timber framing with rendered infill, topped with an old plain-tile roof that is half-hipped to the right. This wing is a single story with an attic and has a single-day range. It includes a three-light casement on the ground floor and a gabled dormer with a three-light casement. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Owlscote Manor 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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