Quaker Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. House. 5 related planning applications.

Quaker Farmhouse

WRENN ID
half-chapel-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 January 1985
Type
House
Address
Quaker Farmhouse, 1, Oving Road, Whitchurch, HP22 4JF
OS grid reference
SP 800 209
Coordinates
51.88125, -0.83884
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Quaker Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 16th to 17th century that has been altered. The left bays feature a restored timber frame with brick infill and a rubble stone plinth, while the right bays are re-cased in red brick. The gables and the rear have rubble stone at the ground floor and timber framing above, with the rear displaying a first floor that jetties on beam ends. The building has an old tile roof and brick chimneys at the gables and center. It is two storeys high with a cellar and consists of four bays. The front has irregular 20th-century leaded casements, with the right bay featuring one oriel window at the ground floor and two above. There is a central 20th-century door within a gabled timber porch, and steps lead down to the cellar below the left bay. An L-shaped extension to the right includes an outbuilding dated 1786, constructed of brick with some timber framing and rubble stone. The rear, facing Market Hill, has three-light wooden casements at the ground floor and irregular leaded casements at the first floor, with the one in the second bay being older.

Inside, the ground floor room to the left of the central chimney has moulded cross beams, a moulded wooden cornice, and heavy chamfered joists. This room also features a fireplace with moulded stone jambs and a moulded wooden lintel shaped like a very shallow four-centred arch with carved spandrels. The fireplace in the room above also has moulded stone jambs and a wooden lintel. The bays to the right have heavy plain cross beams and joists. The staircase includes shaped splat balusters leading to the upper landing.

Local climate

Quaker Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 5 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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