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

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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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