Dairy At Court Farm (Approx 15M West Of Farmhouse)

The dairy at Court Farm, approximately 15 metres west of the farmhouse, is a High Victorian model farm building dated 1878, as indicated on a stained glass window. It was constructed of pinkish brown brick in a Flemish garden wall bond on a chamfered plinth, and features a steep-pitched machine tile hipped roof with a gabled louvre to the ridge. The building is ventilated to the sides and has small, latticed leaded cross-windows at the front and rear. It is a single-storey, rectangular-plan structure situated in front of the service range of the Court Farmhouse.

The front elevation, facing the road, has a large, central gabled open timber-framed porch over a half-glazed door with square leaded lights. This is flanked by two-light segmental-headed casement windows, each light divided into six panes, with identical windows to each return wall.

Inside, many original features remain, including fully tiled walls and window reveals. A moulded cornice is present, beneath which is a decorative band with floral motifs, repeated on the window surrounds and below and above a larger band at a lower level. This lower band depicts a series of rural scenes in blue and white, including a scene of a farm labourer holding a scythe, accompanied by his wife and child, and a farmyard scene. Both the front door and the windows contain stained glass panels, with the door featuring floral motifs and the date '1878', while the windows show similar floral motifs and panels depicting birds. Continuous marble shelving runs immediately below the windows, and the floor is tiled with encaustic tiles, featuring a simple red and black design in the main area and a decorative border around the walls.

The model farm, of which the dairy is part, was built in the 1870s. A cast-iron plate on the farm's water tower is dated 1870, and a datestone on nearby cottages reads 1879. The dairy is a particularly fine example of a High Victorian building, retaining its original, ornately tiled interior.