The Dairy is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1968. Office.
The Dairy
- WRENN ID
- hollow-quartz-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1968
- Type
- Office
- Address
- The Dairy, Castle Ashby Park
- OS grid reference
- SP 861 593
- Coordinates
- 52.22526, -0.73947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dairy, now used as offices, is a building constructed around 1765. It features limestone ashlar and coursed limestone rubble with slate roofs and a stone ridge stack. The structure has a three-unit plan and consists of one storey with three bays. Its design includes a tripartite composition with a tall central pedimented archway flanked by lower wings, each with one bay, lean-to roofs, and half-pediments at the front. The wings contain 18-pane sash windows with stone lintels. The central section projects slightly and is accessed by two stone steps. It has an elliptical-arched opening with a screen of two Roman Doric columns and pilasters at either end. The columns have high bases, strong entasis, and a full entablature with a triglyph frieze that reaches to the springing of the arch. The central doorway to the dairy is set within a recess and features a panelled part-glazed door with a stone lintel, flanked by narrow one-light windows with similar lintels. Above the door is a horizontal oval window. A moulded impost band runs across the wings, marking the base of the half-pediments. The rear elevation is made of rubble stone, with the wings projecting to frame a timber trellis-work verandah. There is a central door to the dairy and a horizontal oval window above it. Inside, the central room boasts a high plaster groin-vaulted ceiling.
Local climate
The Dairy sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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