Church End is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1987. House.

Church End

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 May 1987
Type
House
Address
Church End, Swerford, OX7 4AY
OS grid reference
SP 371 312
Coordinates
51.97815, -1.46064
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building, known as Church End, is a house dating from 1720, as indicated by a datestone. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and coursed squared rubble, topped with a Stanesfield-slate roof featuring ashlar and brick gable stacks. The house has a T-plan and stands two storeys tall with an attic.

The front of the house has two windows and a central four-panel door set in a chamfered stone surround, topped with a keyblock and a decorative label. The left bay features two-light stone-mullioned windows with similar labels but without drops, while the right bay has three-light windows with projecting keyblocks and inserted mullions. A carved datestone beneath a straight moulding is inscribed with "M/TA/1720".

The right gable wall, made of rubble, has four small chamfered openings, while the left gable wall, made of ashlar, has aligned mullioned windows with three, three, and two lights, all featuring straight labels. The roof includes gable parapets, and the left gable stack has an ashlar plinth. At the back, the rubble gable wall contains a four-light mullioned window. Most of the windows are fitted with leaded glazing.

Inside, there is an open fireplace with a wooden bressumer and a large corner fireplace surrounded by stone with an angle roll. The building showcases a remarkable combination of sub-medieval forms alongside 18th-century details.

Local climate

Church End 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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