Higher Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Higher Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- far-mortar-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Farmhouse, Stoke Abbott, DT8 3JT
- OS grid reference
- ST 451 003
- Coordinates
- 50.79993, -2.77977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse built in the early 19th century, designed in an L-plan. It features ashlar stone walls and a slate roof with stone gable copings. The building has two storeys and includes three sash windows with glazing bars and stone cills. The front door, located at the center, is a 19th-century flush-panelled design with a semi-circular fanlight and glazing bars above. A stone portico with Tuscan columns supports an unusual entablature with a large projecting cornice. At the rear, there is a wing with renewed wooden casements and glazing bars, and the rear gable has a stone coping. A 20th-century door with many glass panels is also present.
Local climate
Higher Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- 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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