Dairy House, Skibo Castle

Dairy House at Skibo Castle is a single-storey octagonal dairy built around 1900. It features a central door in a wide west bay, flanked by narrow windows, and has a wing at the rear that connects to the Dairy House. The exterior is constructed of tooled, sneck coursed rubble, and the narrow windows are fitted with leaded Art Nouveau glazing. The dairy has a red tiled bellcast roof with deep projecting eaves supported by rustic wood columns, creating a veranda with red quarry tiled paving. The roof is adorned with an ornamental tiled ridge and three octagonal louvred and ogee-headed ventilators.

Inside, the dairy contains two rooms with decorative tiled walls, tiled floors, and marble benches, as well as an ornamental fountain in the western room.

The Dairy House, also built around 1900, has an asymmetrical cruciform plan and is a single-storey building with an attic, comprising three bays. It features crowstepped gables and rectangular bay windows on the ground floor, facing east and south. The entrance is located in a re-entrant angle, and there are two piended dormers with deep eaves and tile finials. The upper sashes have multi-pane glazing, and the central ridge includes a battery of four octagonal stacks. The roof is red tiled and has a decorative tiled ridge.