Ludwell Farmhouse and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1957. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Ludwell Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- vacant-corbel-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1957
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ludwell Farmhouse and Attached Barn, Wootton, OX20 1AZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 433 223
- Coordinates
- 51.89782, -1.37122
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A late 16th-century farmhouse, extended in the 19th century, now a house. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a gabled stone slate roof and brick end stacks. The original plan comprised two units, with a later 18th-century two-storey rear wing and an 1876 extension to the left. The front has a symmetrical four-window range, with a mid-19th century six-panelled door under a bracketed flat hood. The ground floor features a flat stone arch over a mid-19th century one-light window in the outer bays and a pair of 2-light casements above, one set within a 16th-century hollow-moulded stone architrave and the other within a mid-19th century architrave. Other windows are late 16th-century two-light hollow-moulded stone-mullioned windows with pointed arches. A mid-19th century gabled roof dormer has a pointed-arched 2-light casement. The rear features a similar late 16th-century two-light window and a hollow-moulded pointed-arched doorway. The 1876 extension is of matching materials with brick dressings and has a 4-centred arched doorway. Inside, the room to the left retains plank shutters with strap hinges, likely 17th century, quartered moulded beams, stop-chamfered joists with run-out stops, and a moulded segmental-arched fireplace. A room to the right has an 18th-century moulded cornice and beam. A first-floor room to the right displays late 16th/early 17th-century panelling, while rooms are divided by a late 16th-century close-studded timber partition. The roof is late 16th-century, incorporating a queen-strut truss to the right and two collar trusses with pointed-arched windbraces to the left. An attached barn, of similar materials, stands to the right of the farmhouse.
Local climate
Ludwell Farmhouse and Attached Barn receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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