Higher Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Farmhouse.
Higher Farm House
- WRENN ID
- dark-step-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Farm House, Bowden Hill, Henstridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 691 206
- Coordinates
- 50.98452, -2.44026
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Farm House is a farmhouse from the 19th century, though it may include some earlier elements. It is constructed from local stone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a Welsh slate roof with coped gables and brick chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and five bays, featuring 3-light mullioned windows with labels and cast iron casements that have diamond panes. Between the second and third bays, there is a 4-centre arched doorway with a 'Y' traceried fanlight and a studded boarded door. To the west of the fifth bay, there is a plain door with steps. The end gables are rendered, and the west gable includes a circular window with a semi-circular label and a radial glazed cast iron casement. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Higher Farm House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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