Home Farm Dairy

Home Farm Dairy is a building that originally served as stables and is now a workshop with an adjoining house. It was re-faced after 1735 and is likely the work of Giacomo Leoni, who designed Alkrington Hall in 1735. The structure is built of brick, which is now rendered, and features stone dressings and a graduated stone slate roof. It has three bays and two storeys, with lean-to sheds at the rear, a two-bay addition on the left, and a 20th-century house on the right that is not of special interest. The original design included a symmetrical elevation with a projecting plinth, rusticated quoins, and an eaves cornice. The central door is topped with a fanlight and framed by a Gibbs surround. There are two windows on either side of the door, one of which has had a door inserted; these windows have keystones, stone sills, and 20th-century casements. On the first floor, there is a central keyed oeil-de-boeuf, with a keyed oculus to the left and a square opening (formerly an oculus) to the right. Inside, the building features a purlin roof supported by two king-post roof trusses with curved struts, and there is painted oak panelling by the staircase.