Higher Dairy Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. A C17 Farmhouse.
Higher Dairy Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- unlit-keystone-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Dairy Farmhouse, Tarrant Launceston
- OS grid reference
- ST 939 097
- Coordinates
- 50.8876, -2.08682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Dairy Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the 17th century. It is constructed of flint with squared rubble block walls and features a tiled roof with end brick stacks. The building has two storeys and a four-window range, with two-light casements that have glazing bars; the ground floor windows are set under segmental heads. There is a central 20th-century porch and door.
Inside, the farmhouse has chamfered ceiling beams with shaped stops, and the fireplace bressummer bears an incised inscription reading "1669 RW" within a roundel. The farmhouse was thatched until recently.
Local climate
Higher Dairy Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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