Dairy At Berkin Manor At North East Corner Of House

The dairy at Berkin Manor, located at the northeast corner of the house, was built around 1860 for Edward Tyrell. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings and features a plain tile roof. The building is square in shape, single-storeyed, and faces west, with a verandah extending to the front and sides and a cold store at the northeast corner.

A battered brick plinth supports a low brick wall topped with a terracotta-lozenge balustrade and tile coping. Cast-iron columns rise from this wall, supporting an oversailing roof that projects from below the gable at the front. The dairy has quoins, chamfered, quoined, keyed round-headed windows, and a similar basket-arched doorway.

On the west side, broad stone steps lead up to the verandah on the right, where there is a diagonally-boarded iron-fringed door flanked by windows. A stone plaque featuring the Tyrell crest is set into the gable, along with an eaves band and an iron finial. There are two windows on the right return and one window on the left return, along with a projecting store under a catslide roof that has a wood-latticed door and brick walls.

Inside, the verandah features a red and brick tiled floor, while the dairy itself has a geometric-patterned coloured tile floor, white hexagonal glazed tiles on the walls, a grey-marble slab shelf on turned legs, wire-mesh window shutters, and board underdrawing on the roof. The design may have been inspired by the dairy at Home Farm, Windsor, built in 1858 for HRH Prince Albert.