Shambles is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1987. Farmhouse.
Shambles
- WRENN ID
- leaning-plinth-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Shambles, East End, Swerford
- OS grid reference
- SP 377 313
- Coordinates
- 51.97897, -1.45179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shambles is a farmhouse, now a house, located in Swerford East End. It probably dates from the late 17th century and was re-roofed in the 19th century. The building is constructed from coursed squared marlstone with wooden lintels and features a Welsh-slate roof with brick stacks. It has a three-unit plan and two storeys plus an attic.
The front of the house has three windows and a central doorway, which is topped by a gabled 19th-century canopy. On either side of the doorway are three-light casements, while the first floor has three two-light casements and there are three gabled roof dormers in the attic. All windows have 20th-century casements. The stacks are located to the left of the centre on the right gable.
Inside, there is a large inglenook fireplace with an ovolo-moulded wooden bressumer, and the beams and some joists feature stop chamfers.
Local climate
Shambles 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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