Court House Dairy is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1951. Farmhouse.
Court House Dairy
- WRENN ID
- solitary-grate-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Court House Dairy, Thornford
- OS grid reference
- ST 623 143
- Coordinates
- 50.92748, -2.53769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Court House Dairy is a detached farmhouse dated 1850, as indicated by the transom of the front window. The building features rubble-stone walls with a continuous string course beneath the main window and above the front door. It has a clay-tile roof with stone gable copings and stone stacks, one at the left gable and another at the right front stack embrasure, which displays the fleur-de-lis of Digby.
The farmhouse is 1½ to 2 storeys high and has an irregular and unusual arrangement of windows. On the left side at ground level, there are 4-light casements with wooden mullions and a stone cornice above. A gabled dormer window features 3-light casements with a wooden lintel. The central window is a two-storey, 3-light mullion window with a heavy transom, which is also gabled and coped. The front door, located to the right of this window, has moulded jambs and a depressed arch within a square head, and it is a plank door fitted with strap hinges.
At the rear, there is a range set at right angles to the main building, which is also 1½ storeys high and contains two windows: one 3-light and one 4-light wood casement, both with wooden lintels above. The ground floor windows have stone cornices. The central doorway features a door frame with a depressed-arch head, leading to another plank door with strap hinges. There is an outshut at the rear of the main range, which was formerly a pump house, and the dairy is housed in the rear range.
Local climate
Court House 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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