The Old Dairy is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 September 1996. Dairy.
The Old Dairy
- WRENN ID
- noble-basalt-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 September 1996
- Type
- Dairy
- Address
- The Old Dairy, Trawsgoed
- OS grid reference
- SN 668 730
- Coordinates
- 52.33938, -3.95532
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Dairy is a former model dairy building, constructed with roughcast and featuring slate roofs with deep eaves. It is a single-storey, long structure that has a large half-hipped centre cross-range and small half-hipped pavilions at each end, positioned between low cowshed ranges. The centre section has a half-hipped roof topped with a large hipped-ended long louvred ventilator on the ridge. The front has three bays with raised piers separating broad cambered-headed windows; there are two long windows on each side and a shorter window in the centre above an altered half-glazed door. The long windows are designed with mullions and transoms, featuring small panes, while the centre window has only top lights.
The side ranges include square-headed doors, with the left range having five doors, and the second and third ranges being smaller. The end pavilion on the left has two cambered-headed doors. The right range has been altered and includes four 20th-century windows and one 20th-century double window. The end pavilion on the right features a 20th-century upper window.
The rear of the building mirrors the front's centre section but lacks a door, instead having cambered-headed windows in each side wall. The low wings at the back have four cambered-headed windows, alternating in width, with the left wing containing a door at the far left. The right end pavilion has two long cambered-headed windows, with the left window featuring one inserted small 20th-century window. The interior was not accessible during the inspection.
Local climate
The Old Dairy sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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