Higher End Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1987. Farmhouse.
Higher End Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- errant-lead-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher End Farmhouse, Higher End Lane, Hale
- OS grid reference
- SU 179 176
- Coordinates
- 50.95771, -1.74526
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher End Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features a timber-frame structure with brick infill and rebuilding, topped with a slate roof. The building is two storeys tall and has three bays, along with a one-and-a-half storey, two bay dairy wing at one end. The garden front has an 18th-century encasing, while the first floor was rebuilt in the 19th century. There is a timber gabled central porch and windows with segmental heads. On the farmyard side, there is a projecting wing for the dairy on the left-hand side and lean-tos at the end bays. The windows include three-light casements, and the first floor has an exposed frame with two-light casements. The farmhouse has end stacks.
Local climate
Higher End Farmhouse receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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