Higher Ford Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1984. Farmhouse.
Higher Ford Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muffled-copper-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Ford Farmhouse, Wiveliscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 095 289
- Coordinates
- 51.05259, -3.29218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Ford Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse. It has a rendered exterior with quoin strips and a hipped Welsh slate roof, featuring tall brick chimneys that rise from the eaves on both the left and right sides. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The windows are sashes with glazing bars and are adorned with rusticated voussoirs. The central round-headed doorway also has rusticated voussoirs, a fanlight, and a six-panelled door.
Local climate
Higher Ford Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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