View from S showing dairy Digital image of A/44458
SC 747184
Description View from S showing dairy Digital image of A/44458
Date 19/3/1984
Catalogue Number SC 747184
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 44458
Scope and Content Dairy, Corseyard Farm, Dumfries & Galloway, from south Corseyard is an elaborate, model dairy farm on Knockbrex estate, 8.8km south of Gatehouse of Fleet. The estate was bought by James Brown, a wealthy Manchester cloth merchant, in 1895 for his retirement. Corseyard was built between 1911 and 1914. Its unusual dairy was nicknamed the 'coo palace'. This shows the Italian-style milking parlour, a long rectangular, six-bayed, aisled building. Its roof tiles are made of red asbestos set in a diamond pattern. The square tower behind is topped by a deep, embattled parapet and a circular stair-turret. They form part of the steading built round a square courtyard. James Brown undertook an ambitious programme of building on his new estate. The milking parlour and adjacent tower suggest a medieval, Italian 'Duomo and Campanile' layout. The design of the milking parlour resembles a church (duomo), while the tower alongside is reminiscent of a bell tower, or campanile. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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