Higher Fernhill is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1986. Farmhouse.
Higher Fernhill
- WRENN ID
- dusted-copper-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Fernhill, Broadwoodwidger
- OS grid reference
- SX 369 877
- Coordinates
- 50.66689, -4.3093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Fernhill is a farmhouse dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century, with later additions. The building is whitewashed and rendered, likely made of cob, and features a hipped slate roof. The main range has a large projecting stack with set-offs and a brick chimney shaft at both the right and left ends.
The farmhouse has a two-storey, three-bay symmetrical front, with a central 20th-century gabled porch. The windows are 16-pane sashes with horns, although the left ground floor window has been reglazed as a 4-pane sash.
Inside, the right side of the ground floor includes a boxed-in cross beam and an early 19th-century panelled dado. The left side features similar panelling and a mid-19th-century marble chimney piece. The quality of the panelling and fireplace is notably elegant for a small farmhouse.
Local climate
Higher Fernhill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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