Higher Dairy House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1988. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Higher Dairy House
- WRENN ID
- winding-window-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Higher Dairy House, Kingstone, TA17 8TB
- OS grid reference
- ST 393 132
- Coordinates
- 50.91596, -2.86379
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Dairy House is a detached cottage with origins dating back to the 17th century, which has been modified, and its roof was likely raised in the 18th century. The building is constructed from ham stone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a double Roman clay tiled roof between stepped coped gables, along with brick end chimney stacks. It has two storeys and consists of two bays.
On the ground floor, there are hollow-chamfered mullioned windows set in chamfered recesses, with labels above; the first bay has a 4-light window and the second bay has a 3-light window. On the upper floor, there are 3-light plain mullioned windows with iron-framed central opening lights. Between the bays, there is a boarded door with toplights, which is hung on a heavy frame and accessed by seven steps, set under a timber lintel. The higher west gable features a similar plain mullioned window, along with an earlier-type single-light casement below it. The east gable has 20th-century windows, and there is an outshut on part of the rear elevation. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Higher Dairy House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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