Court Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1956. A {} Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Court Farmhouse

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1956
Type
Farmhouse
Period
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Address
Court Farmhouse, B4022, Great Tew
OS grid reference
SP 394 291
Coordinates
51.95927, -1.42696
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Court Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the late 17th century, likely altered in the early 19th century. It is constructed from limestone and marlstone rubble, featuring marlstone-ashlar dressings, and has a Stonesfield-slate roof with marlstone-ashlar stacks. The building is in an L-plan shape and consists of two storeys plus an attic, along with a one-storey section that also has an attic.

The front of the farmhouse includes, on the right, the gable end of the higher wing, which has a ground floor entrance in a 19th-century ashlar gabled porch, a blocked keystone doorway, and a mullioned window, as well as a stepped buttress. The upper floors feature two-light stone-mullioned windows with labels, and there is a band at the second-floor storey. To the left, the lower range has another gable and leaded stone-mullioned windows with two and three lights. This lower range extends further to the left, and there is an outshut to the right of the higher range that reaches the full depth of the rear wing. Additional leaded mullioned windows, with labels, are present in the left range gable wall and at the rear, with configurations of two, three, and four lights.

At the rear of the lower range, there is a secondary entrance featuring a segmental keyblock arch below a label. To the extreme left of the front, there is a single-storey kitchen wing designed in a similar style, which has a large ashlar stack on the front gable. Although its roof has been partly dismantled, it remains connected to the lower range by a segmental archway. The porch is noted to have been relocated from a house in the "Wilderness" in the 1850s. The Wilderness is a garden associated with Great Tew House, which replaced part of the village that was demolished around 1830.

Local climate

Court Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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