Higher Holt Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Farmhouse.

Higher Holt Farmhouse

WRENN ID
nether-bronze-wind
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 Holt Farmhouse, Holt Lane, Melbury Osmond
OS grid reference
ST 566 088
Coordinates
50.87763, -2.61683
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Higher Holt Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 18th century, with attached farm buildings positioned at right angles. The structure features rendered stone walls and half-hipped thatch roofs, with a central brick stack on the west ridge. It stands two storeys tall with attics. The south elevation has two windows, which are three-light cast-iron casements with glazing bars from the 19th century. The front door, located at the centre, is a plank door with one top light, dating from the 20th century. There is also a porch with a gabled slate roof, added in the 20th century. The return elevation has two-light casements.

Attached to the farmhouse are stables and a barn, which are in one range down the slope. These buildings have rubble-stone walls and thatch roofs, and they are also two storeys high. The openings include two plank doors to the stabling, with one loft door above, and a stable-door entrance to the barn. The barn has two loft doors, and its east side features a projecting porch with a hipped slate roof and two-leaf plank doors.

Local climate

Higher Holt Farmhouse 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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