Caspian Barn at Farmoor, the five-bedroom 17th-century barn conversion outside Oxford where Florence Pugh grew up, carries a guide price of £1,650,000 with Knight Frank, and reports say her parents bought it for £950,000 in 2011

Caspian Barn, a five-bedroom 17th-century barn conversion on Cumnor Road at Farmoor, about four miles from Oxford, carries a guide price of £1,650,000 on its Knight Frank listing, reference OXF012512881. The particulars describe the house as “A characterful 17th-century barn conversion with a small holding, set within attractive countryside on the edge of Oxford.”

The property is given as Caspian, Valley Farm Barns, Cumnor Road, Oxford OX2 9NS. It was first listed on 24 September 2026 by Knight Frank’s Oxford sales office and was still marked for sale on 14 November in a syndicated copy of the same listing drawn from the Zoopla feed. The tenure is freehold and the council tax band is G. The listing does not name the owners.

Reports identify them as Clinton Pugh and Deborah Mackin, the parents of the actress Florence Pugh, who grew up at the property. The Times of India reported on 2 November 2026 that the couple bought the Grade II-listed barn for £950,000 in October 2011 and are considering a smaller house as their children have moved out.

What the particulars set out

The accommodation runs to five bedrooms and five bathrooms, with an annexe and a separate studio in addition to the main house. The small holding and the countryside setting are the two points the agent leads on, along with the distance to the city: the particulars put the barn at approximately four miles from Oxford.

A statement from the owners on the listing sets out how the outbuildings have been used. “The separate studio, built during our ownership, has also been invaluable,” the statement says. According to the Times of India account of that statement, the studio could work as a home office, a hobby room or extra accommodation, subject to the necessary permissions, and the annexe has its own garden and parking and has taken family members and guests.

The same account quotes the owners describing the interiors as “wonderfully light and spacious”, with double-height ceilings in the main living areas, and records that the family kept a vegetable garden and chickens and managed the plot in a way that drew wildlife. The Knight Frank page keeps the owners anonymous throughout.

The family named in the reports

Clinton Pugh and Deborah Mackin bought the barn in October 2011, the reports say, and their four children have passed through it since. Florence Pugh grew up in Oxford, apart from a spell in Spain: the family moved there when she was three in the hope that a warmer climate would help with asthma and tracheomalacia, a condition affecting the windpipe, and returned to Oxford three years later.

Her siblings are the vocal coach Arabella Gibbins, the musician Toby Sebastian and Rafaela, known as Raffie, who is understood to live at the barn with her parents. Toby Sebastian had been living in the annexe since the family moved in and has recently had a baby with his wife, Scarlet Alexandra. Clinton Pugh has run several restaurants in Oxford and has been a public critic of the city council’s low-traffic policies.

Florence Pugh made her film debut in The Falling in 2014 and went on to appear in Lady Macbeth, Little Women, Black Widow, Oppenheimer and Dune: Part Two. She played Cathy Ames in the Netflix miniseries East of Eden, on which she was also a producer. Photographs taken inside the barn and its annexe have appeared on her social media accounts, among them a family picture posted in December 2015 and shots with the actress Maisie Williams, her co-star in The Falling.

A listed barn west of Oxford

Farmoor lies west of Oxford, and the barn stands on Cumnor Road at Valley Farm. Historic England’s list records Grade II barns on that stretch of road at Farmoor’s Valley Farm, under entries 1048338 and 1389122, but which building corresponds to Caspian Barn has not been confirmed. The Grade II description applied to the house comes from the press reports rather than from the sale particulars, which do not mention listed status.

Oxford and the country around it hold grander examples of the same impulse to keep old buildings in use, among them the stately homes around Oxford that remain open to visitors. Houses better known for their occupants than their architecture are a familiar category in England: George Harrison bought a crumbling Victorian mansion from a group of nuns in 1970 for £140,000 and spent the rest of his life restoring it, while John Lennon paid £145,000 in 1969 for a 72-acre estate in Ascot, where he filmed himself playing Imagine on a white piano before selling it to Ringo Starr.

Caspian Barn remains on the market. The £1,650,000 figure is a guide price rather than an agreed one, and no sale has been reported.