Pumney Farmhouse and Attached Barns and Shelter Sheds is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Pumney Farmhouse and Attached Barns and Shelter Sheds
- WRENN ID
- crooked-cobble-sienna
- 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
- Pumney Farmhouse and Attached Barns and Shelter Sheds, Radley, OX14 3BD
- OS grid reference
- SU 532 978
- Coordinates
- 51.67722, -1.23114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pumney Farmhouse, along with its attached barns and shelter sheds, is a Grade II listed building dating from the late 17th century, with extensions from the 18th century. The farmhouse is constructed from uncoursed limestone rubble, with the front featuring Flemish bond brickwork and dressed stone quoins and plinth. It has a gabled old tile roof and a large brick ridge stack that includes a dentilled band and cornice. The building follows a two-unit lobby-entry plan and is two storeys high with an attic, displaying a four-window range. A segmental brick arch is present over a 20th-century door, while the windows are mostly 20th-century replacements, except for a blocked window above the door. The ground-floor windows have flat stone arches with raised keys set into a stone string course above, and the first-floor windows are topped with flat brick arches. There is a moulded wood cornice and two gabled roof dormers featuring 19th-century two-light casements. The right side wall has three keyed flat stone arches over the windows.
To the left of the farmhouse is an early to mid-18th-century extension built of chequered brick, with a gabled old tile roof and a brick stack at the left end. This extension is two storeys high with a two-window range, a raised storey band, and a keyed segmental brick arch over a late 19th to 20th-century four-light casement. A later 18th-century service wing is located at the rear left, constructed of similar materials and featuring two leaded casements. This wing adjoins a 1960s lean-to at the rear.
Inside the farmhouse, there are cased beams, a small fireplace to the right with a timber bressumer over stone jambs, and a larger room to the left that has a moulded stone fireplace with carved decoration in the spandrels and a trailing-vine frieze.
The late 17th-century barn located to the rear of the farmhouse is built from uncoursed limestone rubble, with dressed stone quoins and brick dressings, and has a gabled old tile roof. It features a five-bay plan with a central threshing floor and an entry flanked by ventilation slits. An outshut adjoins a right-angled 18th-century extension to the right, made from similar materials but weatherboarded over a timber frame for the porch and part of the wall, and has a three-bay plan. The barn's interior includes queen-post roofs with clasped purlins and braced posts, along with 20th-century purlins and a truss in the left section of the 18th-century barn.
The shelter sheds to the right of the 17th-century house are constructed from similar materials and are in an L-plan configuration, featuring queen-post trusses that have been remodelled in the 20th century.
Local climate
Pumney Farmhouse and Attached Barns and Shelter Sheds 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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