Higher Dimmer Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Farmhouse.
Higher Dimmer Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- western-cobalt-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Dimmer Farmhouse, Dimmer Lane, Castle Cary
- OS grid reference
- ST 620 319
- Coordinates
- 51.08533, -2.5437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Dimmer Farmhouse is a farmhouse from the 19th century, possibly incorporating an earlier building. It is constructed from cut and squared Cary stone with Doulting dressings and features a Welsh slate roof between coped gables, along with brick chimney stacks on stone bases. The building has a 'T'-plan layout, is two storeys high, and consists of three bays, with the third bay being a gabled projection. The front elevation has a plinth and a band course, and it includes chamfered mullioned windows with small-pane casements; there are two-light windows above and three-light windows below, each with square labels. The lower bay three features an angled bay window with a configuration of one plus two plus one lights beneath a hipped Welsh slate roof, while bay two has a part-glazed door in a matching opening. The east elevation displays three bays of two-light mullioned windows. The westward wing may have been built later than the north-south wing. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Higher Dimmer Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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