Dairy House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Dairy House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
dim-eave-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 July 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Dairy House Farmhouse, Dairy House Lane, Handforth, SK7 1RA
OS grid reference
SJ 875 836
Coordinates
53.34989, -2.18817
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dairy House Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse with some small alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of orange brick in English garden wall bond and features a Kerridge stone-slate roof with a stone ridge and four brick chimneys. The south front has two and a half storeys and seven bays. There is a raised brick band at the first floor. The right three bays, which are two and a half storeys high, have three-light 20th-century copies of wooden mullioned and transomed windows with glazing bars, set under flat wedged brick heads. These flank an added gabled porch that contains a four-panelled door. Above the porch is a mullioned and transomed window in a gabled half dormer. The left three bays are part of the original building and are two storeys high, featuring similar mullioned and transomed windows along with a blocked fire window below two-light casements above. The left end bay is part of an added farm building that has since been converted. At the rear, there are original windows, one of which has a top panel that slides horizontally.

Inside, the farmhouse has a dogleg oak stair with square newels and a heavy square handrail, with a similar rail halfway down. There are two three-board doors in the lower storeys and a complete set of doors to the attic. The interior also features chamfered ceiling beams and a firebeam in the room at the left end. A room at the rear still functions as a dairy, complete with stone flag ledges and a central table.

Local climate

Dairy House Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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