Distant view from S. Digital image of A/44457
SC 708917
Description Distant view from S. Digital image of A/44457
Date 19/3/1984
Catalogue Number SC 708917
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 44457
Scope and Content Corseyard Farm, Dumfries & Galloway, from south Corseyard Farm is a remarkable, early 20th-century, model dairy steading on Knockbrex Estate, 8.8km south of Gatehouse of Fleet. In 1895 the estate was purchased by James Brown, a wealthy, retired, cloth merchant from Manchester, who undertook an elaborate building programme on his estate. This shows the boundary walls with inset panels of applied shell and pebble decoration, topped with pebble coping. Behind is the former kitchen garden entered by an unusual, keyhole-shaped gate. Beyond that is an Italian-style milking parlour and medieval-style square tower with parapet and stair-turret. Built between 1911 and 1914, these unusual ornamental dairy steadings would seem to reflect the Arts and Crafts Movement, an architectural style popular from 1860 to 1925. It sought to counteract the dreary buildings of an industrial age and create beauty through the use of fine materials and craftsmanship. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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