Sandhill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. Farmhouse.
Sandhill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sacred-lancet-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sandhill Farmhouse, Highworth Road, Shrivenham
- OS grid reference
- SU 229 895
- Coordinates
- 51.60467, -1.66965
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sandhill Farmhouse is a 18th-century rebuilding of an earlier house, with a gabled rubble stone section still visible at the rear. The main part of the farmhouse, rebuilt in the 18th century, is constructed of brick and features a gabled machine-tiled roof with two brick stacks. There is a 19th-century wing that is made of coursed and squared rubble stone, complete with stone dressings and a gabled stone-tiled roof, which has two tall stone stacks with paired polygonal chimneys. Together, these sections create a T-shaped plan.
The 18th-century range has two storeys and seven bays, featuring 2-light, 8-pane casements on the upper floor and 2-light, 3-pane casements on the lower floor. The 19th-century addition also has two storeys and an attic, with three bays. The west front of the farmhouse showcases three-light cross-mullion windows with small panes under dripstones, flanking a central projecting gabled bay. This bay contains a plank and batten door set beneath a Tudor arch, and above the first-floor window, there is a datestone and coat of arms. The gable matches two others at the north and south ends and includes kneelers and a central finial. The south end features a projecting bay window on the ground floor. The west front is partially covered by a thick growth of Virginia creeper.
Local climate
Sandhill Farmhouse receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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