Lower Dairy House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Dairy house.
Lower Dairy House
- WRENN ID
- tilted-cobalt-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Dairy house
- Address
- Lower Dairy House, Compton Valence
- OS grid reference
- SY 592 932
- Coordinates
- 50.73787, -2.57825
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Dairy House is an attached dairy house dating from the early 19th century. It features dressed stone and flint walls arranged in bands, topped with a slate roof. There are two brick stacks on the ridge. The building is two storeys high and has four windows, which are wooden casements with two and three lights, all fitted with glazing bars. The windows are accented with segmental stone voussoirs and have wooden cills. The front door is centrally located, made of planks with a rectangular top light, dating from the 20th century, and is topped by a segmental stone arch. An outbuilding that is at right angles to the main structure is noted as not being of special interest.
Local climate
Lower Dairy House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 2 transactions since 2004
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