Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1989. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- long-wattle-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, Church Street, Idbury, OX7 6RU
- OS grid reference
- SP 235 200
- Coordinates
- 51.87823, -1.65936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-18th century, with some remodeling in the mid-19th century and later additions and alterations. It is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble and has an asbestos tile roof with coped verges. The building features a three-unit baffle-entry plan with 19th-century additions at the rear, facing the farmyard. It stands two storeys tall with a gable-lit attic and has five early 19th-century leaded casement windows positioned directly below the eaves.
Prominent canted bay windows, dating from around 1840, are located on either side of a contemporary segmental-headed half-glazed door with margin lights to the left. There is an infilled doorway to the right of centre and a three-light 20th-century casement with a wooden lintel to the right. The farmhouse has integral ashlar end stacks, with a ridge stack immediately to the right of the infilled doorway. The left stack is integral and has a moulded dripstone and capping, while the right stack has been rebuilt in 20th-century brick above the dripstone. On the first floor of the right gable end, there is a former two-light mullion window, now with the mullion removed and a leaded casement inserted, along with a dripstone.
At the rear, there is a doorway directly opposite the main entrance and a 19th-century gabled range with lean-tos on either side projecting to the left, featuring 19th and 20th-century leaded casements. Inside, the room to the right of the entrance has an encased cross beam and 19th-century pine wainscot paneling. The right ground-floor room, which serves as the kitchen, contains an oak winder staircase that rises to the attic, positioned to the right of the fireplace.
Local climate
Church Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- 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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