The Dairy House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. A C18 Dairy house. 3 related planning applications.
The Dairy House
- WRENN ID
- young-frieze-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Dairy house
- Address
- The Dairy House, Wynford Eagle, DT2 0ES
- OS grid reference
- SY 583 958
- Coordinates
- 50.76101, -2.59126
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dairy House is a late 18th-century dairy house featuring flint and rubble stone walls. It has large ashlar stone quoins arranged in long-and-short work and brick dressings around the windows, which have segmental brick heads. The roof is covered with clay tiles and has gable ends with stone gable copings, along with 20th-century brick stacks at both gable ends. The building is two storeys tall with attics and includes two windows that are 3-light wooden casements with glazing bars and wooden cills. There is a blocked window opening on the left-hand gable. The door is located in the rear wing extension, which has a pentice roof and features a plank door with a wooden frame from the 19th century. The rear service range has rubble stone walls and Roman tile roofs, with a brick stack on the rear ridge.
Local climate
The Dairy House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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