Church House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1987. School house.
Church House
- WRENN ID
- burning-moulding-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1987
- Type
- School house
- Address
- Church House, Between Towns, Swerford
- OS grid reference
- SP 374 311
- Coordinates
- 51.97775, -1.45634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House is an early 18th-century school house and schoolroom that has been converted into a residence. It is constructed from coursed squared marlstone with ashlar dressings and features a concrete plain-tile roof with a rendered gable stack. The building is designed in an L-shape and has two storeys. The symmetrical front of the house includes a central four-panel door flanked by two-light casement windows, with a three-light casement window above on the first floor. All windows and doors have chamfered stone surrounds and projecting keyblocks, with lower keyblocks extending to a horizontal string. The roof features gable parapets, a stack on the right side, and the remnants of a bellcote on the left. To the left, there is a small single-storey hall that is now part of the house, which projects forward and has an additional chamfered doorway on its right return wall. The front gable wall showcases a three-light stone mullioned-and-transomed window with a label and lattice glazing, which may have been altered in the late 19th century. The rear wing of the house contains leaded casements. Inside, the house features a stop-chamfered beam and a large blocked fireplace.
Local climate
Church House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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