Manor Farm Cottage Wychwood is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
Manor Farm Cottage Wychwood
- WRENN ID
- seventh-step-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor Farm Cottage Wychwood, Kencot, GL7 3QT
- OS grid reference
- SP 252 042
- Coordinates
- 51.73674, -1.63504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farm Cottage and Wychwood are two houses located in Kencot. Wychwood dates back to the early 17th century and features a 20th-century extension, while Manor Farm Cottage was built in the late 18th to early 19th century. The buildings are constructed from coursed rubble limestone with slobbered pointing, topped with a stone slate roof and rubble stone chimneys along the ridge. Both houses are two storeys high with an attic.
Wychwood includes one 17th-century bay that has hollow-chamfered stone mullion windows with Tudor hoodmoulds; the lower window has four lights and the upper window has three lights. There is a 20th-century gabled roof dormer with a two-light barred wooden casement. To the left, there is a doorway featuring a 20th-century glazed false door, a 20th-century wooden lintel, and remnants of a former gabled hood. The left end of Wychwood has been extended by one bay in the 20th century, which includes single- and two-light windows that match the original style, along with a gabled wooden hood over a half-glazed door. Inside the original bay, the ground floor has a plaster ceiling frieze from the early 17th century, decorated with a vine trail, and there are traces of similar ornamentation on the ceiling. An old winder stair aligns with the stack and features old board doors with latches and butterfly hinges. Some roof timbers have been partially renewed.
Manor Farm Cottage has dressed stone quoins and a gable verge. It features three bays of paired barred wooden casements, which were renewed in the 20th century and have flat stone arches. There is a 20th-century leaded single light window to the right of the door, and a small catslide roof dormer to the left with a top-hung wooden casement. The central entrance has a flush-panelled door with a stone open pediment hood supported by shaped scroll brackets. The gable end facing the road has barred wooden casements with wooden lintels. Both buildings have small lean-to extensions at the rear.
Local climate
Manor Farm Cottage Wychwood receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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