The Old Dairy is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Dairy
- WRENN ID
- sharp-solder-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Dairy, 43, High Street, Harpole, NN7 4BS
- OS grid reference
- SP 690 607
- Coordinates
- 52.24045, -0.99006
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Dairy is a house dated 1735, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is constructed of coursed squared ironstone and features a plain-tile roof from the 20th century, along with brick stacks at each end. The building has a two-unit plan and is two stories high with a two-window range. There is a central blocked door, and the ground and first floor have 20-pane sash windows. The ground floor windows have flat-arched heads, while the first floor windows are topped with stop-chamfered wood lintels. Between the first floor windows, there is a worn datestone inscribed with R/TT/1735. To the left, there is a single-storey lean-to extension, and to the right, there is another single-storey extension with a slate roof. Inside, the house features a stop-chamfered spine beam and an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. The building was formerly thatched.
Local climate
The Old Dairy sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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