Higher Farm House Including Front Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1951. House. 2 related planning applications.
Higher Farm House Including Front Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- plain-footing-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Higher Farm House Including Front Boundary Wall, High Street, Yetminster, DT9 6LF
- OS grid reference
- ST 593 108
- Coordinates
- 50.89571, -2.57974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Farm House is a detached house located on the north side of High Street in Yetminster. It features date stones on the front wall reading "A.W. 1624" and "A.W. 1630". The building is constructed from rubble stone with a hipped asbestos tile roof and brick end stacks. Originally built as a single storey with attics, it now has two storeys.
The front façade includes a pair of part-glazed doors that appear to be in a former window opening, with the head and remnants of the mullion still visible. To the left, there is a blocked doorway. The ground floor has two 4-light stone mullioned windows with hoodmoulds and casements featuring a central horizontal bar. On the first floor, there are two 2-light and two 3-light similar windows, along with a small lozenge-shaped recess at a high level.
At the left end of the house, there is a two-storeyed rear wing with a tiled roof and stone eaves courses, as well as a single-storey rear lean-to with a pantile roof. Inside, the right ground floor room features a large open fireplace with a cambered timber lintel, and there is a rear door in a depressed 4-centred arch. The interior also includes some deep chamfered ceiling beams.
The front boundary wall is low and made of rubble stone, topped with cock and hen coping.
Local climate
Higher Farm House Including Front Boundary Wall 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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