Interior View showing detail of fanlight in entrance hall of dairy Digital image of B/20347
SC 747215
Description Interior View showing detail of fanlight in entrance hall of dairy Digital image of B/20347
Date 12/1988
Catalogue Number SC 747215
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 20347
Scope and Content Detail of fanlight in entrance hall of dairy, Corseyard Farm, Dumfries & Galloway Corseyard is a remarkable, dairy farm on Knockbrex estate, 8.8km south of Gatehouse of Fleet. The estate was bought in 1895 by James Brown, a wealthy retired cloth merchant from Manchester. Corseyard, built between 1911 and 1914, was designed as a model dairy unit of the period. This shows the fanlight above the entrance hall of the dairy. The decorative fanlight is in Art Nouveau style, popular between 1888 and 1906. This fanlight and the tiles decorating the walls demonstrate the increasing importance of lighting, ventilation and cleanliness in 20th-century dairy farming. The significance of dairy farming in the south-west of Scotland was firmly established by the end of the 18th century, and by 1889 a Dairy School for Scotland had been founded near Kilmarnock. John Speir, a farmer from Cambuslang, south of Glasgow, pioneered modern methods of dairy farming. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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