Westmill 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. 3 related planning applications.
Westmill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- errant-gateway-swallow
- 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
- Westmill Farmhouse, Highworth Road, Watchfield, SN6 8TH
- OS grid reference
- SU 231 908
- Coordinates
- 51.61589, -1.66658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westmill Farmhouse is a 17th-century core with an addition dating to around 1820. It is situated on the Highworth Road in Watchfield. The farmhouse is constructed of rubble stone, rendered and incised to imitate stonework, with a gabled slate roof. It has a roughly L-shaped plan, comprising a 17th-century section running north-south and an 1820 addition to the west.
The north front, which faces the road, is two storeys high and five bays wide. The 17th-century section has two clapboarded gabled dormers and three-light sash windows. The 1820 addition features six six-pane sashes on the upper floor and six-pane sashes on the ground floor. A centrally positioned six-panel door is sheltered by a rendered porch with a gabled slate roof.
Inside, the drawing room in the 17th-century section retains two stopped and chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, a large chamfered stone jamb to an inglenook fireplace, and two-light mullioned windows with cavetto mouldings. These original windows are now set within an internal rear wall, due to later outshuts. The 1820 addition includes an elegant staircase with carved tread-ends, typical of the period.
Local climate
Westmill 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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