The Dairies (Western House and Coach-House) is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1987. House, coach-house.
The Dairies (Western House and Coach-House)
- WRENN ID
- steep-eave-nettle
- 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, coach-house
- Address
- The Dairies (Western House and Coach-House), the Park, Henderskelfe
- OS grid reference
- SE 712 702
- Coordinates
- 54.12357, -0.91141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dairies, which includes Western House and a coach-house, is a building from the early 19th century located in Henderskelfe, Castle Howard. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and Westmorland slate. The house is situated on the right, while the coach-house is on the left, both under a single roof.
The coach-house features six bays and is two storeys high, open to the roof. It has round-arched slatted openings set in a blind arcade with an impost band. There is a boarded door with a fanlight in the third bay and a two-light fixed window between the fifth and sixth bays. The roof is hipped to the left and includes a pair of lanterns at the ridge.
The house consists of two bays and is also two storeys tall. It has a six-panel door beneath a fanlight in a rusticated round-arched doorcase, flanked by 16-pane sash windows. On the first floor, there are unequal nine-pane sash windows. Flat stone arches are present throughout, and the eaves overhang. The roof is hipped to the right, featuring a corniced ridge and end stacks.
Inside, the coach-house has ventilation flues leading to the lanterns, indicating it may have been used for corn storage in the past.
Local climate
The Dairies (Western House and Coach-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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