Bishop's Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Farmhouse.

Bishop's Manor Farmhouse

WRENN ID
small-cornice-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1951
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Bishop's Manor Farmhouse, Townsend, Harwell
OS grid reference
SU 493 895
Coordinates
51.60238, -1.28817
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bishop's Manor Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the mid-17th century. It features roughcast, probably over timber-framing, and has an old plain-tile cross-gabled roof. A massive lateral stack is located to the right, made of coursed stone rubble with brick dressings and two diagonally-set brick flues, along with a brick ridge stack on the left return. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a two-window range that is positioned at right angles to the street.

The central entrance consists of a six-panel door with a flat hood supported by brackets. On the ground floor to the left and on the first floor to the left and centre are three-light casements, and the eaves are curved with two cross-gables featuring banded fish-scale tile-hanging. The left return, facing the street, has three-light casements on the ground floor with gabled hoods on brackets, and two jettied cross-gables in the attic supported by carved brackets and a moulded bressumer. The cross-gables display false close-studded timber-framing.

At the rear, there is an 18th-century wide sash door at the centre, and the fenestration consists of irregularly placed casements. Inside, the farmhouse is noted for its massive chamfered spine beams with ogee end stops.

Local climate

Bishop's 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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