The Dairy at Lower Charlton Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1978. Dairy. 2 related planning applications.
The Dairy at Lower Charlton Farm
- WRENN ID
- quiet-hammer-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1978
- Type
- Dairy
- Address
- The Dairy at Lower Charlton Farm, Charlton Drive, Wraxall and Failand, BS48 1PE
- OS grid reference
- ST 492 739
- Coordinates
- 51.46182, -2.73206
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dairy at Lower Charlton Farm is a model dairy built in the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed from coursed, rough-faced rubble with freestone dressings and features a decorative tiled roof made of plain and fish-scale tiles, with the upper part overhanging and louvred for ventilation. The building has an octagonal shape, with a single two-light cross window on each side and a square-headed doorway. Inside, the dairy retains all its original fittings, including a decorative tiled floor and walls, stained glass windows with a floral design, marble tables around the walls with butter-making sinks that have fluted sides, and a central two-tier marble fountain on a baluster stem.
Local climate
The Dairy at Lower Charlton Farm receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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