Higher Farm House Thorncombe, England

Listed Building Data

Higher Farm House has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1118922
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
8 April 1983
Name
HIGHER FARM HOUSE
Location
HIGHER FARM HOUSE, HIGH STREET
Parish
Thorncombe
District
West Dorset
County
Dorset
Grid Reference
ST 37479 03141
Easting
337479.0000
Northing
103141.0000

Listed Building Description

Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

ST 3703 THORNCOMBE HIGH STREET, SOUTH SIDE 7/114 Higher Farm House GV II Farmhouse c.C18. Brick walls rendered on street and rear facades. Corrugated asbestos slate roof. Brick stacks on ridge centrally, and at each gable. Doorway at rear. 1 1/2 storeys with central buttress. Five-six window range, including 4 dormers with C20 casements, weatherboarded gables and sides. Stone coping to North-East gable. Gable-wall features; red brick with open lozenge of burnt headers. One brick and one heavy rubble stone buttress. The gable-wall is a distinctive feature when coming up the street. Sources R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p. 248(24).

Listing NGR: ST3747903141