Description

SK 55 SE
1569- /2/10014

GEDLING
Arnold
MANSFIELD ROAD (north east side)
The Dairy at Dairy Farm

II
Dairy. c1900. Red brick with applied timber framing with pebbledash infill and copper roof. Hexagonal plan with corridor linking it to farmhouse. Single storey. Brick walls with chamfered band and above simple box framing with a single casement to each face except for that with linking corridor. The corridor has a four-light casement. Hexagonal hipped roof of two pitches with three roof lights surmounted by a hexagonal wooden cupola with tiny copper dome.

Interior has terrazzo floor, tiled walls and wooden coving. Tiled corner piers and marble columns support marble shelves around the walls. Either side of most of the windows are rectangular tiled panel with moulded tiled frames each depicting a dairy maid in a different national costume. The centre of the room has a marble fountain with two carved bowls. This is a very rare example of a highly decorative dairy which retains almost all of its original features.

Listing NGR: SK5752850200

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540870

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version