Higher Sminhay Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1985. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Higher Sminhay Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- burning-railing-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Sminhay Farmhouse, Mutton Street, Marshwood, DT6 5PZ
- OS grid reference
- SY 388 991
- Coordinates
- 50.7885, -2.86944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Sminhay Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse constructed with rubble walls that are rendered and in some areas roughcast. It features a half-hipped corrugated iron roof and a rendered brick stack located at the center of the ridge. The building has two storeys and includes three wooden casement windows with two and three lights, along with a plank door. Inside, the farmhouse boasts a full jointed-cruck roof construction with slip-tenons still in place. There are two large open fireplaces; one includes a bread oven on the left side, while the other has moulded stone jambs and a depressed-arch wooden lintel above. The interior also features brick blocking and a wooden spiral staircase. To the right, there is a stable extension that has rubble walls and a corrugated iron roof.
Local climate
Higher Sminhay Farmhouse receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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