Survey Data
Reg No
21902428
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Creamery
Date
1900 - 1940
Coordinates
176414, 143544
Date Recorded
24/01/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached gable-fronted five-bay double-height former creamery, built c. 1920, with corrugated-iron canopy to loading bays to north-west and south-west elevations. No longer in use. Pitched chamfered slate roof having cast-iron rainwater goods and timber bargeboards to gables. Corrugated-iron walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed openings with concrete sills, boarded up with corrugated-plastic and corrugated-iron. Square-headed opening to south-west elevation having double-leaf timber battened door.
Appraisal
This example of an early twentieth-century creamery serves as a reminder of a local dairy farming industry in the area, prior to large-scale mechanisation throughout the countryside. The building is notable due to the use of corrugated-iron in its construction and its utilitarian design.