Old Rectory Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1989. House. 4 related planning applications.
Old Rectory Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- peeling-brass-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Rectory Farmhouse, Lower End, Alvescot, OX18 2QQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 272 040
- Coordinates
- 51.73493, -1.60613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory Farmhouse is a house dating from the early to mid-18th century, with alterations and extensions in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of dressed limestone to the front, with the remainder of the building in coursed rubble. The roof is covered in stone slates, with ridge chimneys rebuilt in dressed stone during the 20th century. The original building is a single range with a projecting stair turret to the centre of the rear flank, which is flanked by 19th-century lean-to extensions. Single-storey extensions extend from each gable end.
The house has two storeys and an attic, with three bays. The windows are 20th-century metal casements, with three lights flanking two lights, each set within a flat stone arch. There are three 20th-century gabled roof dormers with sash windows. The central doorway has a half-glazed door with an open stone pediment hood supported on shaped stone scroll brackets. A single-storey 20th-century extension is set back to the right, featuring a loggia.
The rear of the house has a central gabled stair turret with two-light stone mullion windows below Tudor hood moulds to the upper floors. A 20th-century flat-roofed lobby extension is attached to the ground floor. The flanking lean-to extensions have casements to the ground floor and small paired sashes to the first floor.
Inside, a ground floor room to the left has a fireplace with dressed stone jambs and lintel. Later stairs have been installed.
Local climate
Old Rectory 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- 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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