Beaulieu Court Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1952. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Beaulieu Court Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- frozen-trefoil-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Beaulieu Court Farmhouse, Pen Lane, Sunningwell
- OS grid reference
- SP 497 004
- Coordinates
- 51.70103, -1.28088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beaulieu Court Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse that was remodelled in the late 18th century and the mid-to-late 19th century. The farmhouse is constructed of roughcast over limestone rubble with ashlar quoins, featuring a rubble plinth and a moulded string course. It has a hipped Welsh slate roof and a stone ridge stack rebuilt in the 20th century. The building has a cross-shaped plan and three storeys, with a three-window front.
A central three-story porch has a two-light round-headed stone window above a broken segmental pediment and a label mould above a four-centred moulded stone doorway. The doorway has an 18th-century panelled inner door with a dolphin knocker, set within a 17th-century chamfered stone architrave. The windows are mid-to-late 19th-century sashes, topped by a late 18th-century parapet.
A rear wing of one bay has an early 17th-century doorway with a segmental-arched chamfered stone architrave. A wing to the left was remodelled in the late 18th and 19th centuries, using similar materials. This wing is two storeys high with a three-window front, and contains 19th-century three-light Gothick casements to the left side wall and front gable end.
The interior features some stone-mullioned cavetto-moulded two-light round-headed windows that have been unblocked, representing part of the original symmetrical front. Other interior details include moulded stone fireplaces, 18th-century panelled doors, and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. A late 18th-century dog-leg staircase is also present. The first floor was not inspected but is likely to be of interest.
Local climate
Beaulieu Court 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 — 2 transactions since 2004
- 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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