The Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hollow-lantern-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Farmhouse, Bishopstone, Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell, HP17 8SH
- OS grid reference
- SP 806 101
- Coordinates
- 51.78431, -0.83253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Farmhouse is an 18th-century house constructed of red and blue brick, featuring an old tiled roof with a stack to the left of the center and a hipped dormer. The building has a projecting header and a moulded brick eaves cornice. It is two stories tall with four bays of 4-pane wide sash windows set in reveals with flat arched heads. The entrance, located in the second bay from the left, has a 6-panel door with a flat head, a moulded wood architrave, and a portico that has a flat top, a moulded frieze, and columns with fluted capitals. There is a modern flat-roofed extension at the rear. The right gable features a sash window on the first floor and a modern casement in the attic.
Local climate
The Old Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- 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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