Old Dairy 5 Metres North of Childhay Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. Dairy.

Old Dairy 5 Metres North of Childhay Manor Farmhouse

WRENN ID
narrow-gravel-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 December 1951
Type
Dairy
OS grid reference
ST 409 040
Coordinates
50.8327, -2.84003
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Dairy, located 5 metres north of Childhay Manor Farmhouse, is a former dairy building dating from the 17th century. It features coursed rubble-stone walls and a Roman-tile roof with stone gable-copings. The structure is two storeys high and has three windows fitted with 20th-century wooden casements. There is one stone mullion window with four lights, which includes ovolos and single glass panes. The building also has three 20th-century doors that are topped with concrete lintels.

Local climate

Old Dairy 5 Metres North of Childhay Manor Farmhouse 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 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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  2. Lower Farmhouse Grade II 581 m
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  5. Schoolhouse Farmhouse Grade II 880 m
  6. Wood Farmhouse Grade II 975 m
  7. Bridge Farmhouse Grade II 1.2 km
  8. Old Netherhay Grade II 1.4 km
  9. Methodist Church Grade II 1.4 km
  10. Blackdown House, and Former Dairy Range Grade II 1.4 km