Higher Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. A C17 Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Higher Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall
- WRENN ID
- stark-jamb-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall, Over Compton, DT9 4QS
- OS grid reference
- ST 588 168
- Coordinates
- 50.94992, -2.58748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the 17th century. The door lintel is dated "Istas Aedes Restituit Refecit J.R.P.G. A.S. MDCCCXCII", indicating repairs made in 1892. The building features dressed stone walls and clay-tile roofs with gable ends and stone gable copings, along with moulded kneelers. There are ashlar stone stacks at the gable ends. The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics and has three windows with ovolo-moulded stone mullions. The ground floor has four-light windows, while the first floor has three-light windows, all with straight dripstones above. The windows are wooden casements with glazing bars. The front doorway is centrally located and has a depressed-arch head, featuring a recessed panel and a late 19th-century glazed door. Above the door is a pitched stone canopy supported by moulded stone brackets. An attached front garden wall, made of dressed stone with coping stones, ramps up to the central gateway.
Local climate
Higher Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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