The Dairy is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. Dairy. 1 related planning application.
The Dairy
- WRENN ID
- burning-cinder-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1987
- Type
- Dairy
- Address
- The Dairy, St. Michael's Mount, TR17 0HT
- OS grid reference
- SW 514 299
- Coordinates
- 50.11753, -5.47778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dairy is a Grade II listed building located on St Michael's Mount, dating from the 1870s and designed by Piers St Aubyn. It was originally used as a dairy until 1909 and is modeled on the Abbot's Kitchen at Glastonbury. The structure is built from rock-faced granite with granite dressings and features an octagonal plan topped with a corbelled granite ventilator, a steep granite roof, and a ball finial. A stone chimney is located on the right-hand (south) wall of the flat-roofed dairy kitchen.
The building is single-storey, with the dairy on the left side, which has a three-light mullioned window on the front, rear, and left-hand sides, along with weathered diagonal buttresses at the outer angles. It has a chamfered plinth and a coved wall-plate cornice. The entrance porch in the middle has a shouldered doorway and a four-light window at the rear. The dairy kitchen on the right side projects at both the front and rear and has two-light windows, one at the front and two at the rear.
Inside, the Dairy is preserved as a Victorian dairy with original fittings, including slate shelves in the cool dairy, fireplaces in the dairy kitchen for creamers and heating water, and a large sink with a wooden draining board. The floors are made of stone.
Local climate
The Dairy receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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