The Dairies (East House) is a Grade II* listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
The Dairies (East House)
- WRENN ID
- pitched-beam-falcon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dairies (East House), the Park, Henderskelfe, YO60 7BY
- OS grid reference
- SE 713 703
- Coordinates
- 54.12408, -0.90968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dairies (East House) is a house located in Castle Howard, built around 1720 with later alterations. It was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh for Charles Howard, the 3rd Earl of Carlisle. The building features tooled sandstone ashlar and a Welsh slate roof. It has a central entrance and is flanked by a pair of pavilions connected by a wall on the left. The main house is two storeys high and has three bays. The entrance consists of a double-leaf door with six fielded panels and glazed upper panels, set within an architrave that has a decorated pulvinated frieze supported by consoles holding a moulded pediment. The windows throughout the house are six-pane sashes in architraves with stepped keystones, and there is a moulded cornice along the top. A low parapet with ornamental urns at the corners crowns the building, and a concealed roof features a central corniced stack.
The adjacent pavilion is a single tall storey with three bays and has casement windows under flat arches, topped with a hipped roof. The connecting wall includes a double-leaf board door beneath a flat arch and has coping stones. The end pavilion is two storeys high with a single bay and features casements under flat arches and a hipped roof.
Local climate
The Dairies (East House) receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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