The Dairy

The Dairy is a late 18th or early 19th century house and shop. It is built of joint-lined rendered stone rubble and slight timber framing with brick infill, and has a slate roof with gable ends. The original plan appears to have included a front parlour with a room at the rear, containing a staircase in the rear left-hand corner and a fireplace against the rear wall, to the left of a former entrance passage. Two smaller rooms were situated to the right, with the front room originally serving as a shop. A two-storey kitchen outshot projects from the rear of the left-hand room. The shop now occupies the entire front range, with all internal partitions removed. Access to a new courtyard is via the rear part of the passage, which has been absorbed from the adjoining Homeleigh House.

The exterior is two storeys high. There are single, twin 16-pane sashes to each of the upper storeys. The ground floor now has a 20th-century window to the left of the doorway, which has panelled reveals, a bracketed hood, and a channelled pilaster. The door has a panelled base and a glazed upper half. A shop window to the right has a late 19th-century pilastered surround. A 20th-century three-light window extends across the entire facade with a narrow timber fascia. The kitchen outshot features a slightly bowed sash window to the rear left-hand corner.

The interior has been largely remodelled in the 20th century, but the former parlour retains a plain moulded plaster cornice. The 19th-century staircase has a swept handrail with turned newels, although the balusters were replaced in the 20th century. A 19th-century king post roof is also present.