Higher Moorbath Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1984. Cottage, former farmhouse.
Higher Moorbath Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ghost-pinnacle-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1984
- Type
- Cottage, former farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Moorbath Farmhouse, Broadoak Road, Symondsbury
- OS grid reference
- SY 435 952
- Coordinates
- 50.75365, -2.80112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Moorbath Farmhouse is a 17th-century cottage that was formerly a farmhouse. It features stone walls that are roughcast and a thatched roof that is half-hipped at both ends. There is a brick stack located towards the south end of the ridge. The building has two storeys and includes four windows, which are wooden casements with two and three lights, complete with glazing bars. On the east wall, there is a 20th-century door that is accompanied by a brick porch topped with a corrugated iron roof.
Local climate
Higher Moorbath Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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