Barn Immediately West of Westcot Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1995. Barn. 1 related planning application.
Barn Immediately West of Westcot Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- solitary-alcove-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1995
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn Immediately West of Westcot Farmhouse, Sparsholt, OX12 9QA
- OS grid reference
- SU 339 875
- Coordinates
- 51.58561, -1.51209
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn dates from the late 18th century and is located immediately west of Westcot Farmhouse. It is a 3-bay barn with an aisle on the north side and a central threshing bay featuring opposing cart entrances. The barn has a weatherboarded timber frame resting on a brick plinth; the north wall is rendered in concrete blocks. The gable-ended roof is covered with corrugated asbestos sheets, with a tiled, hipped midstrey at the centre of the north side, which has plank doors. The south side has a central cart entrance with sheet metal double doors. The interior timber frame remains largely complete, with wall and arcade posts featuring jowls and straight braces to the tie-beams. The roof structure includes queen-post trusses with vertical struts to the lower purlin ties, two tiers of clasped purlins, long straight wind-braces, common-rafters with a diagonally-set ridgepiece, and wall framing employing close-studding without rails and with straight tension braces.
Local climate
Barn Immediately West of Westcot Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 2004
- 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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