Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. A C18 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sheer-oriel-yew
- 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
- Church Farmhouse, Sunningwell, OX13 6RD
- OS grid reference
- SP 496 006
- Coordinates
- 51.70198, -1.28357
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse situated in Sunningwell. It is constructed of dressed limestone with brick quoins and dressings, featuring a gabled old tile roof and symmetrical brick end stacks. The building has a roughly L-shaped plan with a rear right wing. It extends to two storeys and an attic, presenting a symmetrical three-window façade. A segmental brick arch frames the centrally positioned four-panelled door, which dates from the mid-to-late 19th century and is topped with an 18th-century flat hood. Segmental brick arches, with alternating brick headers, are above the 19th-century three-light cross windows. A raised brick storey band runs along the façade.
The rear right wing is of similar materials and includes a storey band. A stair turret and a late 18th-century brick and tile outshut adjoin a mid-to-late 18th-century wing to the rear left, which is built with Flemish bond brick and has a gabled old tile roof.
Inside, the property features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. A central passage includes winder stairs to the left and a door leading to a ribbed cellar. The attic has early 18th-century ribbed doors and a collar-truss roof.
Local climate
Church 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 — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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