Barn on West Side of Farmyard of Higher Hill Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. Barn. 2 related planning applications.
Barn on West Side of Farmyard of Higher Hill Farm
- WRENN ID
- deep-keep-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1986
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn on West Side of Farmyard of Higher Hill Farm, Sub Road, Butleigh, BA6 8TW
- OS grid reference
- ST 517 320
- Coordinates
- 51.08593, -2.69083
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn on the west side of the farmyard at Higher Hill Farm is a 18th-century threshing barn and grain store, currently used as an agricultural store. It is constructed from coursed and squared blue lias stone and features a steeply pitched corrugated-iron roof. The interior walls are lined with Flemish bond brickwork. The barn is single storey with an 8 bay interior and has a rectangular plan. The northeast elevation includes two projecting carriageways with single-pitched roofs and recessed paired plank doors, along with corresponding doors at the rear, one of which also has a projecting carriageway. The interior is designed with an aisled construction.
Local climate
Barn on West Side of Farmyard of Higher Hill Farm receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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