Ledwell House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Ledwell House
- WRENN ID
- ancient-trefoil-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ledwell House, Sandford St. Martin, OX7 7AN
- OS grid reference
- SP 420 281
- Coordinates
- 51.95018, -1.38945
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ledwell House is a substantial house, probably built in the 17th century and remodeled in the early to mid-18th century, with extensions added in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. The building features banded limestone and marlstone rubble, with limestone ashlar dressings. The roofs are covered with Stonesfield slate and Welsh slate, and there are ashlar stacks.
The house has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys plus an attic. The front of the earlier section has four windows and features a doorway with a projecting ashlar doorcase to the right of center, below a three-light stone-mullioned window with a label. To the right of this, there is a recessed cross window above a large three-light window, both framed in stone architraves with angle rolls and projecting key blocks. To the left of the doorway, there is a large 20th-century bow window below additional architraved windows of one and two lights. The roof includes four gabled dormers.
An added range extends to the left, and the double-gabled right return wall has an architraved window above the main entrance, a 20th-century Venetian window, and a stone-mullioned cellar window. The rear features more architraved windows and steps leading to a basement dairy. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Ledwell House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 2 transactions since 2004
- 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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