Set Of 4 Dairies And Entrance Gateway

SK 5474 and SK 5574 HOLBECK WINNINGS ROAD Welbeck Estate Village (West side)

11/106 Set of 4 Dairies and Entrance gateway

G.V. II

4 dairies, walls and piers. c.1860. Ashlar, iron and wood. Ashlar dairy with slate roof, shaped coped gables, kneelers, mannerist style orb finials and glazed ventilation shaft running along the ridge. Set on a plinth. 2 storeys, 5 bays. Central doorway. Panelled door and arched overlight. Flanked by single, arched, patterned glazing bar casements and further single similar doorways. Above, central similar doorway flanked by single similar smaller casements. All openings have raised ashlar surrounds, impost blocks and keystones. In the apex is a single decorative panel with keystone at each cardinal point. The single storey sides of 9 bays with moulded eaves bands have similar doorways and casements. The dairy 4 metres to the north is similar, but lacks the first floor doorway. 4 metres north of this is a further dairy, also similar, but the ground floor is obliterated by an earth mound and lacks the first floor doorway. Attached to the left of this is a narrow coped wall, set on a plinth and terminating in a coped pier. There is a corresponding pier to its south, forming a gateway. The 4th dairy , 4 metres south of the first dairy described, of ashlar, wood and iron, has ahipped slate roof with 3 ridge ventilation shafts. Having a doorway with double wooden door and, to the right, set on a low ashlar wall, 9 bays of decorative wooden panelling divided by iron columns which rise to support the roof on decorative brackets. A single bay is broken by a doorway.

Listing NGR: SK5551074082