Higham Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. Farmhouse.
Higham Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stranded-minaret-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1961
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higham Farmhouse, Dixter Road, Northiam
- OS grid reference
- TQ 821 250
- Coordinates
- 50.99582, 0.59367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higham Farmhouse is an L-shaped house dating from the 15th century, which has been refaced. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring four windows. The exterior is tile-hung with a tiled roof and two small gables. The windows are casement style with small square leaded panes. There is a red brick chimney breast on the east wall. The 18th-century doorway is adorned with Ionic columns, a pediment, a semicircular fanlight, and a door that has six moulded and fielded panes. Additionally, there is a Venetian window at the east end of the first floor.
Local climate
Higham Farmhouse 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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