Higher Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1961. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Higher Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- drifting-glass-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1961
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Farmhouse, Pound Road, Thornford, DT9 6QB
- OS grid reference
- ST 604 131
- Coordinates
- 50.91633, -2.56355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Farmhouse is an attached farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features rendered rubble-stone walls and a slate roof with stone gable-coping on the left side. There is a brick stack located on the ridge, slightly to the right of the center. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three windows on the ground floor, which are Yorkshire sliding-sashes with glazing-bars and flush frames from the 19th century. The first floor has three-light wooden casements with glazing-bars and wooden cills. The entrance, located to the right of center, consists of a plank door with weatherboarding and a solid oak frame, also from the 19th century. Additionally, there are attached front iron railings and an iron gateway set on a low stone sleeper wall, both dating from the 19th century.
Local climate
Higher Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- 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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