Gainsborough Dairy is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. A C17 Dairy-house.
Gainsborough Dairy
- WRENN ID
- rough-bronze-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- Dairy-house
- Period
- C17
- Address
- Gainsborough Dairy, Castleton
- OS grid reference
- ST 644 154
- Coordinates
- 50.93697, -2.50773
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gainsborough Dairy is a detached dairy-house dating from the 17th century, or possibly earlier, with alterations from the 18th century. It features rubble-stone walls with dressed-stone quoins and a thatched roof with stone-slate eaves and gable ends. There are brick stacks located at the south end of the ridge and at the center of the ridge. The building is 1½ storeys high and has 2 to 3 windows with irregular arrangements. The east elevation includes a 3-light wooden casement and two-leaf plank doors with a wooden lintel above, which are from the 19th century. There is an outshut towards the right end, covered with a tile roof and featuring 2-light wooden casements. A plank door in the angle provides access to the outshut, which also has a pent-roofed porch above.
Local climate
Gainsborough Dairy 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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