Barnard's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1950. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Barnard's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- third-joist-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 1950
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Barnard's Farmhouse, Charlton Village Road, Wantage, OX12 7HQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 407 884
- Coordinates
- 51.59346, -1.41252
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barnard’s Farmhouse, now a house, was built around 1770-80. The front is of glazed brick in a header bond pattern, with red brick quoins and dressings. It has a stone slate roof with 20th-century valley tiles, and brick stacks. The house has a double-depth plan and is two storeys high, with a three-window front. A broken pediment sits above the six-panelled front door, which has a decorative fanlight. Gauged brick arches are above the eight-pane sash windows on the ground floor, and these windows retain shutter hinges. A wood dentilled cornice runs along the top of the front elevation. The roof is half-hipped in an "M" shape, with end and internal stacks. The side walls have "oeil-de-boeuf" (bullseye) windows, with brick dentilled parapets that extend to ridge height. A mid-19th century four-light casement window is located at the rear left.
Attached to the rear left is a two-by-three bay block, originally built in the mid-18th century and remodelled in the late 19th century. This section is constructed of Flemish bond brick with flared brick headers, brick dentilled eaves, and a hipped roof covered in old tiles.
Inside, there are late 19th century four-panelled doors. The front left room has keyed round-headed cupboards with fluted pilasters. In the rear left room is a panelled dado and a moulded stone mantleshelf above an open fireplace. The central through-passage has a stone flag floor. An 18th-century two-panelled door leads to the cellar, and there is a late 18th-century straight-flight staircase. The first-floor front right room features a late 18th-century surround to an iron grate with neo-classical motifs. The attic has eight-panelled doors.
Local climate
Barnard's Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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 — 6 transactions since 1997
- 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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