Dairy House, Dairy Cottage And Attached Stables

TM 13 SW 3/265

MISTLEY GREEN LANE Dairy House, Dairy Cottage and attached stables

GV II

Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings, and attached stables. c.1777. Flemish bond red brick; double-gabled roof with old plain tiles to front and slates to rear; brick ridge and end stacks. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys with cellar; 8-window range. Steps down to cellar, with wrought-iron handrail. Mid C20 gabled timber porch and cambered gauged brick arch over C19 plank door set in beaded architrave to Dairy House on right; timber lintel over C19 plank door with overlight Set in beaded architrave to Dairy Cottage on left. Cambered gauged brick arches over 12-pane sashes; dentilled brick eaves over similar first-floor sashes. Similar sashes, C19 casements and plank door to rear. Interior of Dairy House: mid C18 panelled shutters and doors; mid C18 fireplaces; open-well staircase with stick balusters to rear; room to left has corner cupboard flanked by pilasters; plank door to kitchen on right which has moulded mantle shelf over blocked fire- place, copper, bread oven and mid C18 shelving on carved brackets. Interior of Dairy Cottage not inspected. Subsidiary features; stables to left of Flemish bond brick with old plain tile, corrugated iron and Roman tile gabled roof. Double-depth plan. One storey and loft; 4-window range. Gauged brick cambered arches over 2 C20 stable doors; gauged brick lunettes blocked and with mid C20 inserted window to left; plank doors set in raking half-dormers; raised eaves course. Bay to left has weather-board over timber frame. Interior: chamfered beams. History: this building, together with the dairy, brewhouse and cowhouse (q.v.) was built in about 1777 for the Rigby family of Mistley Hall; they are shown as part of complex entitled "Farmhouse, Offices and Co" in the area of the estate known as the Park on Bernard Scale's 1778 map (now in Essex Records office).

Listing NGR: TM1139231170