Farmhouse And Attached Dairy At Easneye Dairy Farm 470 Metres North East Of Mansion

This is a farmhouse and attached ornamental dairy located at Easneye Dairy Farm, approximately 470 metres northeast of the mansion. Built around 1868 by architect Waterhouse for T F Buxton, the structure features red brick with a pattern of black headers and tile-hung upper floors. The farmhouse has steep red tile roofs and is designed in a T-plan, consisting of two storeys with a single-storey rear range that connects to a tall, single-storey octagonal buttressed ornamental dairy at the northeast.

The entrance to both buildings is through a recessed logia on the north side, which has blind pointed arcading on the rear wall and a three-bay arched braced timber front beneath an extension of the tiled roof. The farmhouse jetties out on the north side, supported by moulded brick corbels, with a moulded bressumer and bargeboard above the gable. It features small wooden casements set under segmental arches and cusped tile-hanging at the apex of the gable. The central chimney is tall and has clustered octagonal shafts.

The dairy showcases three-light chamfered brick traceried windows with leaded glazing in cathedral glass, set beneath a single equilateral arch on its four front faces. It is supported by diagonal buttresses with tumbled brick offsets, a moulded plinth and string course, and corbelled ornamental eaves that hold a cast iron gutter trough. The dairy is topped with a finial and four small gabled vents.

Inside, the dairy has a vaulted ceiling with stone ribs that rise from corbels, and red and black brick panels below a moulded string at high sill level. The blue tiling features an impressed Gothic geometric pattern down to a white marble bench that runs all around, supported on chamfered timber brackets with cooling pipes underneath. The top of the tiling has a deep ornamental band of oxblood slips and white on blue flower scrolls, along with a frieze of lobed geometric pattern tiles in blue. The floor is laid with encaustic tiles, primarily red with black net and buff junctions, bordered by diamond-set black tiles on a white ground with red and buff bands on either side. This impressive picturesque group includes an ornamental dairy of exceptional interest.