Dairy House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Dairy House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fading-rubble-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Dairy House Farmhouse, Downhead, BA4 4LQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 689 458
- Coordinates
- 51.21087, -2.44561
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dairy House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1714. It is constructed of rubble with dressed quoins and features a double Roman tile roof that is divided into two halves; the roof is hipped to the left and gabled to the right, with a coped verge and a brick stack. The building has an "L"-plan and consists of two storeys and an attic, with two bays. The windows are three-light moulded stone mullioned windows, except for the left bay on the ground floor, which has two lights. There is a central 20th-century gabled concrete porch with a vertical plank door. Above the door, there is a stone plaque inscribed with "T.E.D. 1714".
Local climate
Dairy House Farmhouse receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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