Higher Holway Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Farmhouse.
Higher Holway Farm
- WRENN ID
- muffled-threshold-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Holway Farm, Cattistock, Dorchester, DT2 0HH
- OS grid reference
- ST 587 016
- Coordinates
- 50.81293, -2.58726
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Holway Farm is a detached farmhouse dating from the late 17th century, with some changes made in the 20th century, including the alteration of windows and consolidation of walls. The building features chalk block walls set on a rubble stone plinth, with roughcast finish. It has clay tile roofs with gable ends and stone gable copings, along with roughcast stacks at the south gable end and at the ridge center. The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics and has four windows; the ground floor windows are three-light wooden casements with glazing bars and rendered surrounds, dating from the 20th century. The upper windows are three-light stone mullions that are hollow-chamfered, featuring iron casements and lead lights. There are also 20th-century dormers inserted into the roof, which have hipped tile roofs. The main door, located to the left of center, is a flush-panelled design with sixteen glass panes, altered in the 19th century, while the door at the right end is from the 20th century. Inside, the south end room has heavy-chamfered ceiling beams from the 17th century.
Local climate
Higher Holway Farm 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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