Higher Burrow Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. Farmhouse.
Higher Burrow Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- blind-grate-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Burrow Farmhouse, Kingsbury Episcopi, South Somerset
- OS grid reference
- ST 407 200
- Coordinates
- 50.97649, -2.84462
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Burrow Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th to 17th century. It is constructed of rubble with freestone dressings, featuring a gabled roof covered in shingles and thatch, with coped verges and stone stacks. The building has two storeys and an attic, comprising five bays. It includes 2-light stone-mullioned windows with iron lights and leading, as well as quadrants. The entrance is centrally located, featuring a studded plank door.
Local climate
Higher Burrow Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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