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.