The Dairy

The Dairy is a Grade II listed building located on St Michael's Mount, dating from the 1870s and designed by Piers St Aubyn. It was originally used as a dairy until 1909 and is modeled on the Abbot's Kitchen at Glastonbury. The structure is built from rock-faced granite with granite dressings and features an octagonal plan topped with a corbelled granite ventilator, a steep granite roof, and a ball finial. A stone chimney is located on the right-hand (south) wall of the flat-roofed dairy kitchen.

The building is single-storey, with the dairy on the left side, which has a three-light mullioned window on the front, rear, and left-hand sides, along with weathered diagonal buttresses at the outer angles. It has a chamfered plinth and a coved wall-plate cornice. The entrance porch in the middle has a shouldered doorway and a four-light window at the rear. The dairy kitchen on the right side projects at both the front and rear and has two-light windows, one at the front and two at the rear.

Inside, the Dairy is preserved as a Victorian dairy with original fittings, including slate shelves in the cool dairy, fireplaces in the dairy kitchen for creamers and heating water, and a large sink with a wooden draining board. The floors are made of stone.