The Dairies (East House)

The Dairies (East House) is a house located in Castle Howard, built around 1720 with later alterations. It was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh for Charles Howard, the 3rd Earl of Carlisle. The building features tooled sandstone ashlar and a Welsh slate roof. It has a central entrance and is flanked by a pair of pavilions connected by a wall on the left. The main house is two storeys high and has three bays. The entrance consists of a double-leaf door with six fielded panels and glazed upper panels, set within an architrave that has a decorated pulvinated frieze supported by consoles holding a moulded pediment. The windows throughout the house are six-pane sashes in architraves with stepped keystones, and there is a moulded cornice along the top. A low parapet with ornamental urns at the corners crowns the building, and a concealed roof features a central corniced stack.

The adjacent pavilion is a single tall storey with three bays and has casement windows under flat arches, topped with a hipped roof. The connecting wall includes a double-leaf board door beneath a flat arch and has coping stones. The end pavilion is two storeys high with a single bay and features casements under flat arches and a hipped roof.