Number 121 (Dragon Farmhouse) with Attached Barn and Cart Entry, Garden Wall and Outbuilding Attached to Number 119 is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1981. Farmhouse, barn, outbuilding, garden wall.

Number 121 (Dragon Farmhouse) with Attached Barn and Cart Entry, Garden Wall and Outbuilding Attached to Number 119

WRENN ID
ghost-chamber-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1981
Type
Farmhouse, barn, outbuilding, garden wall
OS grid reference
SP 686 091
Coordinates
51.77694, -1.0065
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 121, known as Dragon Farmhouse, is a historic building located on Bicester Road in Long Crendon. It features an attached barn and cart entry, as well as a garden wall and outbuilding connected to Number 119. The farmhouse dates from the medieval period, with elements from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The building consists of four bays, with the bay closest to the road being early 18th century. It stands two storeys high with an attic, constructed from coursed rubble stone, and has a rendered gable, coved eaves made of moulded timber and plaster, and a tiled roof. The gable end has a three-light leaded casement window on each floor. The east elevation has two casements on each floor, featuring a two-light window on the left and a three-light window on the right, with timber framing on the ground floor and old leaded glazing with original glass in the left-hand window on the first floor.

The central two bays are medieval and later, supported by cruck frames. This section is timber-framed with plaster and brick infill, topped with a thatched roof that continues over the end bay. The door to the left is made of panelled oak, while the right side has a three-light casement. There are two upper casements in thatch, with a three-light window on the left and a one-light window on the right. The end bay, dating from the 17th century, may have served as a brewhouse. It features rubble stone on the ground floor and timber framing above with some herringbone brickwork, along with a three-light casement window on the ground floor. The stone gable wall has a large projecting stone chimney stack with a tiled offset on the west side, and a small thatched lean-to on the right with a small leaded upper window to the left.

The west elevation includes a glazed door at the centre, flanked by three-light casements on each side, and a two-light casement in thatch. There is a half-glazed door in the rear bay and a six-pane window on the first floor. Inside the house, there are two notable cruck trusses with blades truncated above the collars, and the beams of the floor inserted into what was once an open hall appear to date from the 16th or 17th century.

The barn attached to the house, likely built in the early 19th century, is made of stone with brick dressings and has a weatherboarded upper section. The thatched roof has been replaced with concrete tiles and is hipped at the west end. The road-facing front features a modern three-light swept dormer above the cart entrance, while the rear elevation has three similar four-light dormers. Inside the barn, there are queen strut trusses. Additionally, there is a stone boundary wall and a low thatched outbuilding connected to Number 119.

Local climate

Number 121 (Dragon Farmhouse) with Attached Barn and Cart Entry, Garden Wall and Outbuilding Attached to Number 119 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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