View showing ridge vent on roof
A 44471
Description View showing ridge vent on roof
Date 19/3/1984
Catalogue Number A 44471
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copy of SC 747192
Copies SC 747192
Scope and Content Ridge vent on roof, Corseyard Farm, Dumfries & Galloway Corseyard is a remarkable, 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 bought the estate in 1895 and proceeded to implement an ambitious programme of building. This shows a vent on the steading roof. By the early 20th century, it was considered good practice to have well ventilated farm steadings instead of the cramped, airless conditions of earlier times. The style of this vent is unusually elaborate as are many other design features in this steading. The design of Corseyard's steading would seem to have been influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement which flourished between 1860 and 1925. It also has elements of Art Nouveau style, popular between 1888 and 1905 making Corseyard architecturally unique in south-west Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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