View of dairy from W, Corseyard Farm
SC 708919
Description View of dairy from W, Corseyard Farm
Date 12/1988
Catalogue Number SC 708919
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 20333
Scope and Content Dairy, Corseyard Farm, Dumfries & Galloway, from west Architecturally unique in southern Scotland, Corseyard is an elaborate, early 20th-century, model dairy farm on Knockbrex estate, 8.8km south of Gatehouse of Fleet. It was built by James Brown, a Manchester businessman, who bought the estate in 1895 for his retirement. This shows the milking parlour alongside a square, six-storeyed tower reminiscent of a medieval, Italian 'Duomo and Campanile' layout in which a church (duomo) stands alongside a free-standing bell-tower, or campanile. Such medieval models inspired the Arts and Crafts Movement between 1860 and 1925. The milking parlour is a long, rectangular building with a glazed clerestory, a feature common in church architecture. This consisted of a row of windows along the raised upper part of the building, just below the arched roof, which lit the ceiling. This highly unusual dairy was nicknamed the 'coo palace'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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