Place Farm House is a Grade II* listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1976. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Place Farm House

WRENN ID
small-pediment-barley
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 May 1976
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Place Farm House, the Lane, Chilton, OX11 0SF
OS grid reference
SU 490 858
Coordinates
51.56915, -1.29313
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Place Farm House is a Grade II* listed farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It features a 15th-century wing at the rear and a 16th-century front range. The building has a painted brick plinth and small timber-framing with painted brick infill, topped by an old plain-tile hipped roof. There is a brick ridge stack located to the left of center and an end stack at the rear right of the 15th-century wing. The house is L-shaped, with two storeys and an attic, and has a three-window range. Most windows are 19th-century casements, except for a 18th-century wood cross-window on the first floor to the right, which has leaded lights.

On the right return, there is a rendered plinth and small timber-framing with some renewed timber on the ground floor and the left side of the first floor, featuring brick infill. The right side of the first floor has close-studded timber-framing with rendered infill. The house again has two storeys and an attic with a three-window range, a six-panel door to the left of center with an over-light, and irregular fenestration of 19th-century casements. There are two gabled full dormers.

Inside, there is an early 19th-century straight-flight staircase from the ground to the first floor on the right, and a wood winder staircase from the first floor to the attic also on the right. The roof features a double Queen-post design with some alterations and two rows of windbraces. The ground floor of the 15th-century portion has deeply moulded spine and cross-beams, while the first floor, now a bedroom, has a deeply moulded spine beam with chamfered joists that have end stops. The adjoining bathroom also features chamfered joists with end stops.

Local climate

Place Farm House 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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