Old Dairy House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1951. Dairy-house.
Old Dairy House
- WRENN ID
- vast-pilaster-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1951
- Type
- Dairy-house
- Address
- Old Dairy House, Longburton
- OS grid reference
- ST 648 125
- Coordinates
- 50.91151, -2.50111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Dairy House is a dairy-house dating from the early 17th century. It features rubble-stone walls and a thatched roof, which was fully rethatched in 1985. The stone gable copings have moulded kneelers, and there are rebuilt brick stacks at the gable ends. The south elevation has 1½ storeys with three windows on the ground floor, which have hollow-chamfered stone mullions and separate labels above. The ground floor windows consist of a four-light window, a two-light window, and a canted bay with a four-light window at the front, all with iron casements. The upper floor has two full dormers with hipped thatch roofs and three-light mullions, with rebuilt rubble-stone dormers. The door, located at the right-hand end leading into an outshut, features re-set chamfered stone jambs and a depressed-arch head from the 17th century, with a 19th-century plank door and strap-hinges.
To the north, there is a rear range with a clay-tile roof and a gable end, which has a rubble-stone stack. This section has two storeys and features two- and three-light wood casements, along with a plank door at the rear. Inside, there is an unusual single-storey east passage. The east room has a ceiling divided into six panels by flat-chamfered beams and a large open fireplace. The central unheated area has stairs and partitions all made of 19th-century matchboarding. The west room has a ceiling divided into four panels by flat-chamfered beams, while the fireplace in the north-west gable is not original.
Local climate
Old 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 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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