Higher Pymore Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Higher Pymore Farmhouse

WRENN ID
slow-landing-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Higher Pymore Farmhouse, Symondsbury, DT6 5PR
OS grid reference
SY 461 950
Coordinates
50.75223, -2.76462
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Higher Pymore Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse with stone walls that are rendered. It features a slate roof with a gable end on the left side and a hipped roof on the right side, with tiled ridges and hips. There are brick stacks located at the left gable and in from the hip apex on the right side. The building has two full storeys and five windows, which are renewed 3-light wooden casements with glazing bars and wooden cills. The front door is flush panelled and leads into a former cross-passage, with a rectangular fanlight above it. The house has its gable end facing the lane.

Local climate

Higher Pymore 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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