Lower Dornford Farmhouse and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1957. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Lower Dornford Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- pale-cloister-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1957
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Dornford Farmhouse and Attached Barn, Wootton, OX20 1ES
- OS grid reference
- SP 449 205
- Coordinates
- 51.88174, -1.34878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Dornford Farmhouse and the attached barn is a farmhouse dating from around 1800. It is built of coursed limestone rubble and features a gabled concrete tile roof with brick end stacks. The building has a central-staircase plan and consists of two storeys and an attic, with a three-window range. A semi-circular arch is present over an early 19th-century six-panelled door, which has two glazed panels and a decorative fanlight. There are flat stone arches above mid to late 19th-century tripartite and three-pane sash windows, as well as gabled roof dormers.
To the left, there is a lower two-storey range with a brick end stack, featuring cambered arches over a 20th-century door and window. A flat stone arch leads to a doorway that provides access to a passageway leading to a rear dairy outshut. At the rear of the house, there is an 18th-century six-panelled door. Inside, there is an early 19th-century dog-leg staircase with stick balusters, and the room to the right contains mid-18th-century panelling with cupboards and a moulded cornice. There are also 18th and 19th-century panelled doors, and the range to the left has a mid-18th-century panelled door leading to a straight-flight staircase.
Attached to the left of the farmhouse is a five-bay barn with a gabled stone slate roof, which features a mid to late 19th-century roof structure. This site is located on the remnants of a deserted medieval settlement and a large manor house that was demolished around 1800.
Local climate
Lower Dornford Farmhouse and Attached Barn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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