Dairy House 30 Metres East of Looke Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Dairy house. 3 related planning applications.

Dairy House 30 Metres East of Looke Farmhouse

WRENN ID
under-brass-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Type
Dairy house
Address
Dairy House 30 Metres East of Looke Farmhouse, DT2 9BA
OS grid reference
SY 548 887
Coordinates
50.69705, -2.64039
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dairy House is a detached structure located 30 metres east of Looke Farmhouse, dated 1711, as indicated by a stone tablet. It features rubble-stone walls with dressed stone quoins and has a 20th-century Roman tile roof with gable ends. There are brick stacks at each gable end. The building is two storeys high with lofts above and has an irregular arrangement of three windows, which include small square windows that were added in the 20th century, featuring fixed single lights. There are also three two-leaf loft doors in old wooden frames located just below the eaves. The front door, positioned left of centre, is a plank door with ornamental 20th-century hinges. At the rear, there is a pentice-roofed outshut.

Local climate

Dairy House 30 Metres East of Looke Farmhouse 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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