Survey Data
Reg No
20805028
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social, Technical
Original Use
Creamery
Date
1910 - 1930
Coordinates
168543, 102366
Date Recorded
02/11/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey creamery, built c. 1920, having loading bay to front elevation and steps up to doorway in south gable. Multiple-bay building to south with three openings to front elevation. Both buildings have pitched slate roofs, with painted timber bargeboards to south building, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course, and having corrugated-iron siding to west gable of south building. Square-headed openings throughout, with fixed timber windows to creamery. Double-leaf timber battened loading doors to south building, one with loading platform having concrete steps, and some blocked windows. Timber battened pedestrian door and blocked window to south gable of creamery. Sliding corrugated-iron door to loading bay of creamery, with concrete loading platform and concrete steps, and timber battened doorway in north gable.
Appraisal
This creamery retains its essential external characteristics, such as the canopied loading bay. The structure itself is simply designed and evenly proportioned, typical of the type found in small rural towns. It is strategically located on a bend in the road next to a river and a bridge and the wide area to the front would have facilitated creamery carts. The creamery served as an important meeting place and a social hub.