Set Of 4 Dairies And Entrance Gateway

This set of four dairies and entrance gateway, built around 1860, is located on the west side of Winnings Road in the Welbeck Estate Village. The dairies are constructed from ashlar stone, with iron and wood elements. The main dairy features a slate roof with shaped coped gables, kneelers, mannerist style orb finials, and a glazed ventilation shaft along the ridge. It stands on a plinth and is two storeys high with five bays. The central doorway has a panelled door and an arched overlight, flanked by single arched casements with patterned glazing bars and additional similar doorways. Above the central doorway, there is a smaller similar doorway flanked by smaller casements. All openings have raised ashlar surrounds, impost blocks, and keystones, with decorative panels in the apex at each cardinal point.

The single-storey sides have nine bays with moulded eaves bands, featuring similar doorways and casements. The dairy located four metres to the north is similar but lacks the first-floor doorway. Another dairy, four metres further north, also resembles the others but has its ground floor obscured by an earth mound and lacks the first-floor doorway. To the left of this dairy is a narrow coped wall on a plinth that ends in a coped pier, with a corresponding pier to the south, forming a gateway. The fourth dairy, situated four metres south of the first dairy, is made of ashlar, wood, and iron, featuring a hipped slate roof with three ridge ventilation shafts. It has a doorway with double wooden doors and, to the right, nine bays of decorative wooden panelling set on a low ashlar wall, divided by iron columns that rise to support the roof on decorative brackets. One bay is interrupted by a doorway.