Oxenford Farm
# Oxenford Farm

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Oxenford Farm is a former abbey farm, a dependency of Waverley Abbey in the civil parish of Witley, Surrey, England, with several listed buildings around a courtyard, including three by Augustus Pugin.

## Buildings

The three highest listed buildings, at Grade II*, are Gothic revival buildings designed by Palace of Westminster-famed Gothic revivalist Augustus Pugin.

* Oxenford Gate Lodge - Grade II* 1843-44 by Pugin; approached over a bridge; includes octagonal turret, gable crucifix (cross) and bellcote.
* Granary and Farm Buildings at Oxenford Farm - Grade II* 1843 by Pugin; buttressed and primarily built from ashlar dressed stone.
* Barn at Oxenford Grange - Grade II*; buttressed and primarily built from ashlar dressed stone.
* Oxenford Grange Farm House - Grade II possibly on medieval foundations but 17th, 19th and 20th century brick dressed sandstone rubble.
* Oxenford Lodge - Grade II 1763 by William Chambers also for the estate of Viscount Middleton

### Remains of Oxenford Grange

* Remains of Oxenford Grange - Grade II the walls survive; date uncertain, listed as reputed to be remains of this dependency of Waverley Abbey; consistent with 13-14th gothic architecture; destroyed before 1775 when Peper Harow House was erected instead of an intended house on this site for Viscount Middleton.

## History

Richer de Aquila (L'Aigle) granted Oxenford to Waverley Abbey before 1147. It was a Cistercian monastery farming community for Waverley Abbey until 1536 when Oxenford was granted to Sir William Fitz William during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was valued at £4 13s. 4d.

The buildings are in recent times within the nearby Peper Harow estate.

## Popular culture

The buildings and their surrounding grounds, near small woods less than 100 metres away to the south and west, were used as a location for Robin Hood (2010 film).

