Old Post Office and Home Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1989. Farmhouse, cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Old Post Office and Home Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- idle-pediment-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage
- Address
- Old Post Office and Home Farm Cottage, Chastleton, GL56 0SU
- OS grid reference
- SP 247 290
- Coordinates
- 51.95965, -1.64145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office and Home Farm Cottage, now two cottages, dates to 1708, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble, with a stone slate roof featuring coped verges. The building is two storeys and has an attic. The front elevation has a slightly irregular arrangement of three windows, all being two-light chamfered mullion windows with dripstones; the dripstones to the first floor are positioned directly below the eaves. One window, located on the lower right-hand side, has the date "1708" scratched on its lintel. Recessed segmental-headed boarded doors are situated to the left and right of the centre window, with a 20th-century narrow rectangular window to the right of the right-hand door. Integral end stacks are present on both the left and right sides, featuring moulded dripstones and capping. Additional mullion windows are found at the rear, where the attic is lit by 19th-century gabled dormers in the roof slope.
During a 1987 inspection, only the Old Post Office (the right-hand cottage) was accessible. This cottage features a chamfered spine beam with run-out stops and chamfered joists in the ground-floor room. The remodelled inglenook fireplace has a chamfered wood lintel and an oak winder staircase to the left, leading to the attic. On the first floor, there is a chamfered cross beam with stepped stops and chamfered joists in both rooms. The stone fireplace in the right-hand room has a chamfered wood lintel with stepped ogee stops. Other interior features include wide oak floor boards and a plank butt-purlin roof in two bays, with chamfered principal rafters to the centre. A 20th-century flat-roofed addition to the left gable end and a 20th-century lean-to on the right, extended to the rear, are considered not to be of special architectural interest.
Local climate
Old Post Office and Home Farm Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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