Interior View showing dairy
B 20335 CN
Description Interior View showing dairy
Date 12/1988
Catalogue Number B 20335 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 747210
Scope and Content Interior of dairy, Corseyard Farm, Dumfries & Galloway Corseyard is a remarkable, model dairy unit, nicknamed the 'coo palace' and built for James Brown, a wealthy Manchester cloth merchant, between 1911 and 1914. Dairy farming has long been associated with south-west Scotland where Scotland's Dairy School was established near Kilmarnock in 1889. This shows the interior of the milking parlour. The easily cleaned, glazed tiles on the walls and the light and ventilation provided by the windows and spacious interior demonstrate improved techniques of dairy farming and the effects of tightening hygiene regulations by the start of the 20th century. The milking parlour was modelled on a medieval, Italian cathedral. A row of windows in the raised section of the roof form a clerestory, a feature of church architecture which lights the ceiling. The quality and finish of the internal decoration of the dairy are of an unusually high standard for a farm building. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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