Rockley 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.
Rockley Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- plain-chancel-gold
- 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
- Rockley Farmhouse, Appleton Road, Cumnor, OX2 9QH
- OS grid reference
- SP 459 042
- Coordinates
- 51.73472, -1.33672
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rockley Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early 18th century. It was refronted and had a rear wing added in the early 19th century, with a late 19th-century extension. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, featuring an early 19th-century stucco front and a gabled stone slate roof, with brick stacks at the ends and ridge. The layout is a 3-unit plan that extends to an L-plan with a rear right wing.
The farmhouse has two storeys and an attic, with a three-window range. It features flat rendered arches over an early 18th-century six-panelled door, which has a flat hood above, and early 19th-century eight-pane sash windows. There are also two-light leaded casements and a 20th-century window in two roof dormers. The late 19th-century two-bay extension to the right has a similar stucco front with narrow sashes above a square bay window. The late 18th or early 19th-century rear wing is made of similar materials and has a two-storey, two-window range.
Inside, the farmhouse includes chamfered beams and a chamfered bressumer over an open fireplace to the left. There is an early 19th-century straight-flight staircase with stick balusters in the central hall. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Rockley 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- 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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