View showing rainwater head (dated 1911) Digital image of A/44467
SC 747189
Description View showing rainwater head (dated 1911) Digital image of A/44467
Date 19/3/1984
Catalogue Number SC 747189
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 44467
Scope and Content Rainwater head, Corseyard Farm, Dumfries & Galloway Corseyard Farm is a remarkable, early 20th-century, model dairy unit built by James Brown, a wealthy cloth merchant from Manchester. Corseyard is in the south-west of Scotland an area long associated with dairy farming and the production of milk, butter and cheese. This shows ornamental pipework recording the year when the building of this remarkable ornamental steading began. The 'fleur-de-lis' or lily-flower design on either side of the date was originally the coat of arms of the French royal family. Locally, the dairy was nicknamed the 'coo palace'. The elaborate design of this steading owes much to the Arts and Crafts Movement, which flourished between 1860 and 1915, and to the Art Nouveau style which grew from it. Corseyard is unique in that area for its architecture, the exuberance of its decoration and the attractiveness of the materials used. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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