Cowshed Laundry And Dairy Range At Easton Farm Park

TM 25 NE EASTON SANCTUARY BRIDGE ROAD

6/76 Cowshed, - Laundry and Dairy range at Easton Farm Park

GV II Former cowshed, laundry and dairy at Model Farm, with domestic accommodation to rear; now part of Easton Farm Park. Circa 1870 for the Duke of Hamilton. Red brick, pantiled roof with crest tiles. Mainly single storey and attic. Main range has central gabled archway through, with applied timbering and a doorway within the tympanum. Cowsheds to left hand side: 5 bays, altered openings, end gable facing forwards, small gabled ventilating turrets to roof ridge. Laundry to right hand side: 3 bays, end gable facing forwards with applied timbering and the Hamilton arms. All the gables have ornamental bargeboards. To extreme right is the single storey churn room and attached single storey octagonal dairy, built in a more ornate manner. The dairy has pointed Y-tracery casement windows, some shuttered, hoodmoulds over; doorway with glazed'double doors and gabled porch; pointed roof Supported on wooden brackets at the eaves, small octagonal turret at apex. The dairy interior is especially fine: the doors have stained glass incorporating the Hamilton monogram and painted lower panels; leaded stained glass to most windows; glazed tiles to the walls with a central frieze of coloured tiles, coloured floor tiles; central cooling fountain and original marble tables.

Listing NGR: TM2768558294