The Dream Factory is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. House.
The Dream Factory
- WRENN ID
- calm-zinc-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dream Factory, Friday Street, Painswick
- OS grid reference
- SO 867 097
- Coordinates
- 51.78638, -2.1933
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dream Factory is a house with a shop, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed of squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings, featuring a plain string course and a plinth. The roof is made of concrete tiles. The building has two storeys and two windows, which contain 16-pane sash windows set on stone sills. There is a central four-panel door located in a deep reveal, topped by a deep transom light, and it is accessed by one step. At the rear left, there is a wing. The building also has two stone gable stacks that have been raised in concrete block.
Local climate
The Dream Factory receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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