Cooks Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1989. A C18 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Cooks Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sacred-moulding-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1989
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Cooks Farmhouse, Lechlade Road, Langford
OS grid reference
SP 247 027
Coordinates
51.72324, -1.6437
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cook's Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now divided, located on Langford Lechlade Road. It dates from around 1730, with partial remodelling in 1826, as indicated by a datestone, and has had later additions and alterations. The building is constructed of uncoursed limestone rubble with alternating angle quoins, featuring a machine tile roof on the main range and stone slates on the lower range.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three windows, which are 19th-century casements with crudely rusticated heads, except for a 20th-century casement on the lower left. The central entrance consists of a plank door with two glazed panels at the top and a plain lintel. There is an integral end stack on the left with a moulded dripstone and a red brick top. The right gable end has 19th-century casements, with three lights on the first floor and two lights on the ground floor, and features dripstones. This gable end also displays the datestone "WE/1826" at the top.

To the left, the lower range includes a boarded door on the right and a 19th-century casement on the left. There is a semi-circular external end stack with a projection at the base that houses a bread oven. The interior was not inspected during the last survey in May 1987, but it was noted to have a chamfered cross beam aligned with the main entrance. A 20th-century single-storey addition at the rear is not considered of special architectural interest. A datestone reading "1730" is incorporated into a nearby converted farm building that is not included in this listing.

Local climate

Cooks Farmhouse 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 2003
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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