Butterfield House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1989. Rectory, house. 7 related planning applications.
Butterfield House
- WRENN ID
- little-passage-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1989
- Type
- Rectory, house
- Address
- Butterfield House, Lechlade Road, Little Faringdon, GL7 3QP
- OS grid reference
- SP 228 013
- Coordinates
- 51.71069, -1.67078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Butterfield House is a rectory, now a house, built in 1867 by William Butterfield. It is constructed of rock-faced limestone ashlar with ashlar dressings and features red machine tile roofs with coped verges on carved stone kneelers. The building is designed in a Free Tudor Gothic style and has a double-depth plan with a cross-wing. It stands two to three storeys high, showcasing a moulded eaves cornice and a ground-floor band on the main range, along with a coped parapet on the flat-roofed range to the right.
The fenestration is irregular, featuring segmental-headed sash windows, some of which are paired, located on the left and centre of the main range, including a hipped eaves dormer in the centre. An internal staircase to the right is illuminated by a rectangular tier of three mullioned windows, with the upper window having cinquefoil-headed top-hung casements, a blind section in the middle, and fixed lights at the bottom. There is a prominent ridge stack to the left of the dormer and an external end stack to the right, both with projecting capping.
The projecting gable to the right contains a moulded segmental-headed paired sash window on the first floor and a window with blind plate tracery on the ground floor. The entrance is through Tudor-arched boarded double doors with decorative strap hinges, located in a two-storey, T-shaped, flat-roofed range at the angle to the right. The parallel rear range is similar to the front and includes ridge stacks. Inside, the original staircase rises to the attic and features slender balusters on an open string, with panelled doors throughout.
Local climate
Butterfield House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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