Austin's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 1988. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Austin's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- second-bonework-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 June 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Austin's Farmhouse, High Street, Stonesfield, OX29 8PU
- OS grid reference
- SP 393 171
- Coordinates
- 51.85156, -1.43079
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Austin's Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 17th century, with an early 18th-century addition, and has undergone mid-19th-century and late 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a stone slate roof. It has a three-unit plan and is two storeys tall with an attic over a basement.
The southeast front has a brick ridge stack that is off-centre to the left and was rebuilt in the 20th century. There are two gabled roof dormers that contain small-paned wooden casements. The front has a 1:2 window arrangement, with 2- and 3-light wooden casements on the right and 19th-century six-pane glazing bar sashes on the left, all featuring wooden cills and lintels. To the right, there is a pair of four-panelled doors, with the lower panels being beaded flush, sheltered by a hipped lean-to porch. The left-hand unit is an 18th-century addition, indicated by a straight joint, and it was formerly two bays, as evidenced by blocked windows.
The right-hand gable end has an oval datestone that is illegible at the time of the survey in March 1987, but it is said to date from 1604. There is a service range to the right that is one storey tall with a loft. It features a 4-light wooden and metal casement on the left with a wooden lintel, and a boarded loft door to the right. The interior was not inspected, but the owner reported a blocked old fireplace and a large bread oven in the service range.
Local climate
Austin's Farmhouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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