Choicehill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1988. Farmhouse.

Choicehill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
seventh-moulding-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Choicehill Farmhouse, Over Norton
OS grid reference
SP 306 296
Coordinates
51.96426, -1.55566
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Choicehill Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into two dwellings. It dates from the early 18th century and underwent alterations in the 19th century. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features concrete plain-tile and Welsh-slate roofs with brick gable stacks. It has an L-shaped plan and stands two storeys plus an attic.

The front of the farmhouse is symmetrical with three windows. The first floor has 16-pane sash windows with flush architraves and projecting keyblocks. The ground floor features canted 19th-century bay windows on either side of a 20th-century porch that shelters the flush-architraved doorway. The steep-pitched roof includes two renewed roof dormers. There is an added lower service bay to the right.

At the rear, there is a long stair window and several tall windows with ashlar flat arches and projecting keyblocks, most of which are now blocked. A three-window rear wing extends from the left end and has additional tall windows, some of which still have leaded cross casements. The rear gable is topped with a stone parapet. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Choicehill Farmhouse receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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