The Cheese House at Park Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Cheese house.
The Cheese House at Park Farm
- WRENN ID
- turning-pewter-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cheese house
- Address
- The Cheese House at Park Farm, Main Street, Chideock, DT6 6JD
- OS grid reference
- SY 426 928
- Coordinates
- 50.73199, -2.81422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cheese House at Park Farm is a 17th-century cheese house located on the north side of Main Street in Chideock. It features walls made of Lias stone with large quoins facing the street and a thatched roof, of which one gable end remains intact. The gable end facing the street has been dismantled due to safety concerns. The building is one and a half storeys high and has approximately three windows. The window openings have plank shutters or 20th-century insertions. There is a doorway on the east wall, with a loft door directly above it, also made of planks. The thatch is styled to sweep over the windows like eyebrows. However, the south end of the Cheese House is in a ruinous condition.
Local climate
The Cheese House at Park Farm receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- No related consent applications matched
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