Idbury House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1957. Farmhouse.
Idbury House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- grey-hammer-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1957
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Idbury House Farmhouse, Church Street
- OS grid reference
- SP 236 200
- Coordinates
- 51.87811, -1.65827
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Idbury House Farmhouse is a farmhouse that is believed to have origins in the 16th century, with later remodelling. It is constructed from a mix of regularly coursed, uncoursed, and roughly coursed limestone rubble, featuring regularly coursed stonework at the eaves of the main range. The roof is made of stone slates with coped verges on the gable end of the rear range, while the front of the main range has been replaced with concrete tiles. The building has a T-plan layout and is likely originally a three-unit baffle-entry type. It stands two storeys high with a gable-lit attic.
The main range, which faces the road, features 19th-century casement windows with chamfered wood lintels on the first floor, and three-light leaded casements with wood lintels on the ground floor, flanking a late 19th-century canted bay window. There is an infilled opening with a slightly cambered stone lintel to the far left. Above the bay window, there is a ridge stack with dripstones and moulded capping. The left gable end has a 20th-century boarded door beneath a contemporary bracketed flat stone hood, flanked by narrow chamfered rectangular windows. There is a two-light chamfered mullion window in the centre of the first floor and a small leaded casement window off-centre in the attic. The right gable end features a two-light chamfered mullion window on the first floor.
On the rear range, which faces the farmyard, there are 19th-century casements with wood lintels, including a centre ground floor window in the position of an infilled doorway, and an upper right window with leaded lights. There is a ridge stack with moulded dripstone and capping to the right, and a 19th-century lean-to attached to the left gable end. The interior was not inspected during the resurvey in August 1987, but it is said to contain wall paintings (which are covered up) and ceiling beams.
Local climate
Idbury House Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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