Higher Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1960. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Higher Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-frieze-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1960
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Farmhouse, Margaret Marsh, SP7 0AZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 826 190
- Coordinates
- 50.9704, -2.24879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The property is a 15th-century farmhouse with alterations and additions dating to the 16th century and later. It is constructed of coursed rubble walls with a thatched, gable-ended roof. The building is approximately four windows wide and has mostly 2-light casement windows with full or horizontal glazing bars. A 20th-century door is present. Internal features, as recorded by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, include remains of an arch-braced, probably cruck-truss roof with wind-braced purlins and evidence of smoke blackening. There is also a 16th-century floor supported by intersecting, slightly hollow-chamfered beams. The property is documented in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Dorset, volume IV, page 46, number 4.
Local climate
Higher Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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