Dairy House is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. House, information centre. 1 related planning application.
Dairy House
- WRENN ID
- steep-joist-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1986
- Type
- House, information centre
- Address
- Dairy House, Romsey, SO51 9LB
- OS grid reference
- SU 353 204
- Coordinates
- 50.982, -1.49711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dairy House, now an information centre, dates to the 18th century and was restored in the 20th century in two phases. The front walls are stuccoed, featuring a moulded and fluted band at first floor level, hoodmoulds over the ground-floor openings, and a plinth. The rear block is brick-built, with English bond on the ground floor and a different bond on the first floor; it includes some rubbed flat arches, cambered arches, and flush blue brickwork patterns. The roof is tiled and hipped at the front. The building consists of two parts: a larger, two-storey-and-attic rear block, and a lower, wider, and narrower front section in a Gothic style, with six windows arranged regularly. The ground-floor windows are deep sashes with Gothic glazing bars, one opening serving as a doorway. The upper floors have small, Gothic-style casements.
Local climate
Dairy House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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