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Cottages and dairy, in residential use, built in 1862-63 by William Smith, following the plans of John Thomas and Beaton in Windsor, with additions in 1864 that were required to house the calves. There is an octagonal, two-storey dairy linked to single-storey and attic U-plan cottages with Tudor details. The buildings are constructed from stugged coursed granite with polished dressings to cottages and ashlar to the former dairy, with a base course and the cottage wallhead slightly jettied on a corbel course. The graded grey slate roof has lead flashing, crowstepped gables with bracketed skewputts and coped gablehead and ridge stacks. There are two slate-hung box dormer additions to the north-west cottage (Number 1), and a later dormer addition to the court elevation of the south-east cottage (Number 2). The octagonal dairy building has a two-storey core surrounded by a substantial, ashlar arcade with Tudor-arched openings, a cornice and a crenellated parapet. The taller ground floor milk house has pointed arch windows with fixed gauze screens and decorative cast-iron grilles below, tiling and benches remain, small windows to the tea room above and timber corbels to the eaves of the octagonal roof that is crowned with a large, octagonal, louvred timber ventilator, billeted cornice and lead ogee roof with decorative finial. The covered link to the cottages to the south-west has a Tudor-arched opening to both sides and a slate roof. The two, three-bay, gabled cottages facing north-west and south-east each have central gabled entrance bays with a pointed-arch opening, a blind arrowslit in gablehead and a fleur-de-lys finial, and are flanked by windows and forming three dwellings. The return gables have raised, battered chimneybreasts, with blind windows. Arrowslits or narrow windows flank at the ground with small attic windows flanking above. A small service court is open to the south-west. There is a lean-to to the rear of the cottages, and the side elevations are lined with stone lean-tos that extend beyond the cottages to the south-west with coped screen walls.
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