Waywardens 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.

Waywardens

WRENN ID
scarred-footing-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 May 1989
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Waywardens, West Street, Kingham, OX7 6YQ
OS grid reference
SP 259 241
Coordinates
51.91485, -1.62382
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Waywardens is a farmhouse, now a house, likely built in the early to mid 18th century with some remodeling around 1790, as indicated by a reputed datestone, and further alterations in the mid to late 19th century. The building is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble with alternating angle quoins and features a stone slate roof with coped verges. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a three-window front. The windows are four-paned horned sashes set in plain stone surrounds, with projecting keystones above the lintels on the first floor and at the lower left and right.

A prominent canted bay window with horned four-paned sashes is located in the centre. The entrance is positioned between the left window and the bay window, featuring a four-panel door with leaded glazing in the top panels and a rectangular overlight with a lintel similar to those above the windows. There are late 19th-century timber-framed and roughcast gabled dormers on the roof slope to the left and right. The building has integral ashlar end stacks and a ridge stack immediately to the right of the entrance, all with moulded dripstones and capping.

On the right gable end, there is a chamfered two-light mullion window on the ground floor. The rear of the house has a gabled staircase projection to the left, lit by two-light chamfered mullion windows on each floor, and a three-light chamfered mullion window on each floor to the right. Inside, there is an oak winder staircase that leads from the ground floor to the attic in the gabled projection.

Local climate

Waywardens receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
  • 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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