View showing chimney
A 44470
Description View showing chimney
Date 19/3/1984
Catalogue Number A 44470
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 747191
Scope and Content Chimney, Corseyard Farm, Dumfries & Galloway Corseyard is an early 20th-century, model dairy unit on Knockbrex estate, 8.8km south of Gatehouse of Fleet. It was built for James Brown, a wealthy cloth merchant from Manchester, who began an ambitious building programme after buying the estate in 1895. Corseyard's dairy was nicknamed the 'coo palace'. This shows an unusual chimney on the roof of the steading. It is one of several examples of the elaborate architecture and design styles used at Corseyard which is unique in south-west Scotland, not only as a model dairy unit of the period, but also for the exuberance of its design and quality of materials used. Much of the design of Corseyard would seem to be influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement, popular between 1860 and 1925. At the heart of this movement lies a desire to achieve beauty in an industrial age, based on the medieval principles of fine craftsmanship and the use of attractive materials. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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