Higher Hewood Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Higher Hewood Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rooted-loft-storm
- 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 Hewood Farmhouse, Thorncombe, TA20 4NP
- OS grid reference
- ST 355 030
- Coordinates
- 50.82298, -2.91602
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Hewood Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse featuring rubble walls with stone quoins and dressings, topped by a thatched roof. The gable copings date from the 17th century. The building has two storeys and includes five to six windows with stone mullions that have cavetto moulds, as well as wooden casements. There are two doors with canopies: one is a plank door with a single window light, and the other is a panelled door with two lights. The left door leads into the original cross-passage.
Inside, there is a large open fireplace with a straight-chamfered wooden lintel, and a wooden spiral staircase of 16th-century origin located beside the fireplace. This staircase leads to a solar that features a stone fireplace with a Tudor arch and a straight-chamfered design.
Local climate
Higher Hewood 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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