Higher Dairy House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1982. Dairy house. 1 related planning application.
Higher Dairy House
- WRENN ID
- hidden-portal-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1982
- Type
- Dairy house
- Address
- Higher Dairy House, Cowgrove Road, Pamphill, BH21 4EL
- OS grid reference
- ST 988 000
- Coordinates
- 50.79998, -2.01713
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Dairy House is a 17th-century building located on Cowgrove Road in Pamphill. The structure features brick walls up to the first floor, with timber framing above that includes brick infill. It has a thatched roof and a brick chimney. The house is one storey high with attics. There is an extension at the east end, which was formerly a dairy and cheese loft; this extension has cob walls up to the first floor and is weather-boarded above, also topped with a thatched roof. The main entrance is a central panelled door located under a timber gabled hood. The ground floor includes three casement windows with glazing bars, while the attic features three dormers with similar casements.
Local climate
Higher Dairy House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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