Dairy Farm house, Weobley, is a Grade II* listed building which had originally been dated to the 14^th or 15^th century.  Recent dendrochronological work by Duncan James has closed this date to the second quarter of the 15th century. It stands on Meadow Street, a medieval street which leads north-west out of the centre of Weobley. 

The area in which Dairy Farm stands, to the east of the Meadow Street, had been identified as being likely to have contained evidence of  medieval occupation. The project was an evaluation on land 30 metres to the north-east of the house in advance of a proposed housing development.

No material earlier than the 19^th century was recovered and the only feature was a single posthole, which was on the line of a field boundary which existed in the later 20th century.

The absence of early archaeological evidence, the distance of the excavation from the house, together with the distance from a possible early medieval village core near Weobley church, and from the later medieval centre of the borough to the south-east, suggest that there are not likely to be significant archaeological remains in the immediate area.

Reporting                                                                                          

Unpublished Report - Dairy Farm, Weobley, Herefordshire: A Report on an Archaeological Evaluation - Huw Sherlock and P J Pikes, 2001. 

This report is available at the Archaeological Data Service site

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A copy of this report is held in the reference section of Hereford City Library