Dunfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Former farmhouse.
Dunfield House
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-marble-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Former farmhouse
- Address
- Dunfield House, Kempsford
- OS grid reference
- SU 144 976
- Coordinates
- 51.67766, -1.79209
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dunfield House is a former farmhouse that has been converted into a large detached house. It likely dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with an earlier small wing at the rear that may be from the mid to late 17th century. The building is constructed of coursed rubble stone with alternating flush quoins and features a stone slate roof with stone stacks that have offsets.
The house is designed in a double range, consisting of two storeys and an attic, with a small two-storey linking unit to the earlier single-storey wing that also has an attic, which may have been the original farmhouse. The main facade faces west and has three windows, featuring three-light stone mullions set in plain stone frames. The right-hand end of the house appears to have been added in the 19th century, using quoins instead of a plain frame.
On the ground floor, there are two three-light stone mullions, and originally there was a central door, which is now obscured by a 19th-century gabled porch that has a chamfered depressed stone arch and a keystone, in front of the original door frame that features a square chamfered arch. The inner door is from the 19th century. There is also a three-light stone mullion and transom on the far right, which is part of the 19th-century addition that projects beyond the rear range. The house has two small gabled dormers with paired wooden casements.
Inside, the property retains several chamfered and stopped beams, along with a large stone bressumer fireplace in the front range. The small wing at the rear features a four-light stone mullion and a single dormer on the north side. The interior of this wing includes a large corner fireplace on the ground floor (in one room only) with an oak bressumer, and a chamfered and stopped Tudor arch fireplace above it.
Local climate
Dunfield House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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