Barn and Attached Outbuildings Approximately 15 Metres East of Caswell House and Caswell Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. A C17 Barn.
Barn and Attached Outbuildings Approximately 15 Metres East of Caswell House and Caswell Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- scattered-hammer-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SP 321 082
- Coordinates
- 51.77176, -1.53584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a barn and attached outbuildings, located approximately 15 meters east of Caswell House and Caswell Farmhouse. The barn likely dates from the 17th century and was re-roofed in the late 18th or early 19th century. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and features a gabled stone slate roof. The barn has a five-bay plan with a central threshing floor and a timber lintel over the central double doors.
Inside, there is a collar-truss roof with butt purlins. Attached to the left is an early 19th-century L-shaped loosebox range made from similar materials. To the right, there are early 19th-century covered cart-loading bays, consisting of six bays with stone piers on the right side and a hipped Welsh slate roof. There is also a plank loft door in the barn for unloading sheaves of corn.
At the rear, there is a long outbuilding that served as former stables, a cowhouse, and a granary, mainly dating from the 17th century but with earlier origins. The left side wall features timber lintels over three 17th-century plank doors with Norfolk latches and strap hinges, along with another similar door set in a chamfered stone architrave, a 17th-century chamfered stone light, and four 19th-century hit-and-miss ventilators. Stone steps lead to the granary door.
Inside the cowhouse at the front, there are ogee-stopped chamfered beams and a cobbled floor. The granary above has a four-bay through-purlin roof, with two collar trusses and two upper crucks featuring arch-braced collars and a saddled apex. The cowhouse behind is open to a four-bay collar-truss roof with through purlins. There is a similar roof in the hayloft over the stables at the rear, which have a cobbled floor and oak mangers and stalls. This farmbuilding is a rare and important survival.
Local climate
Barn and Attached Outbuildings Approximately 15 Metres East of Caswell House and Caswell Farmhouse receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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