Parsonage Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1989. Farmhouse.
Parsonage Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- noble-transept-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Parsonage Farmhouse, Sarsden
- OS grid reference
- SP 295 239
- Coordinates
- 51.91371, -1.5721
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Parsonage Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid-18th century, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble and features an artificial stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, with three-light 19th-century casement windows on each floor flanking a central plank door that is sheltered by a 20th-century open hip-roofed porch. There are two 20th-century hip-roofed dormers in the roof slope, and integral end stacks, with the right stack being of double thickness, both topped with plain capping. Two tie beam ends are visible below the eaves.
Inside, the right ground-floor room has a chamfered spine beam with run-out stops and an inglenook fireplace with a bread oven to the left, where a semi-circular projection is visible in the rear range. To the right, there is a cupboard with a plank door. A panelled cupboard is located on the back wall, and reused square and rectangular oak panelling can be found in the cross wall to the left of the entrance. The left room also features a chamfered spine beam. A plank door leads to an oak winder staircase in the front right corner of the right room, which continues to the attic. The first floor has ceilings with chamfered cross beams and run-out stops, and throughout the house, there are plank doors, some fitted with wooden latches. The roof structure consists of a collar truss in three bays with single butt-purlins, additional collars laid on the purlins, and a vertical stud wall at the centre. A range at right angles to the rear on the right has been largely rebuilt in the late 20th century, and a lean-to in the angle between the two ranges is not of special architectural interest.
Local climate
Parsonage Farmhouse receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% 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 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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