The Old Dairy

The Old Dairy is a house dating from the 17th century, or possibly earlier, with substantial alterations in the 20th century. It has been divided into a restaurant, office, and accommodation. The construction is of mass wall construction, with plaster on the exterior. The roof is thatched to the front pitch, the right end, and the rear, with parts being pantile. There are front and left-end stacks; the front stack has a rebuilt shaft of stone and brick, and an old terracotta pot. The left-end stack has a rendered shaft with an old terracotta pot. A rear lean-to section is built with stone rubble and a corrugated asbestos roof.

The original layout was a single-depth main range, approximately three rooms wide, with a front lateral stack and a hall bay. A cartway runs through the building on the left end. A single-storey rear lean-to of unknown date is also present. The front facade is asymmetrical, with a three-window arrangement. The cartway is on the left, leading to an entrance in the left-hand section of the house, on the return wall of the cartshed. A projecting front lateral stack is situated alongside a projecting hall bay, retaining some leaded panes in the ground-floor casements. To the left of the hall bay, there is a single ground-floor, two-light casement with 12 panes per light, and a single first-floor, two-light casement with 9 panes per light. The right end has undergone more alterations, including a first-floor, three-light casement with small panes and a modern timber shop window and small-pane shop door on the ground floor, both beneath a slated pent roof supported by brackets. The rear elevation features modern steps leading to the first-floor accommodation and a rear right wing with a higher roofline than the main range.

During a partial inspection of the interior, plasterwork was recorded. A 1973 description noted that the plasterwork had fallen and not been replaced during renovations in the 1980s, although sections of frieze were reported to be intact.