Milking Parlour, Dunrobin Mains, Dunrobin Castle

The Milking Parlour and Dairy Cottage are located on the Dunrobin Mains estate, near Dunrobin Castle. The Dairy Cottage is a 19th-century example of a picturesque cottage orne, built as a single-storey asymmetrical composition with an attic. Its construction utilizes coursed, tooled rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The south-facing frontage, which faces the sea, features a two-bay design with paired gabled dormers rising from the wallhead. A large, round drum tower is situated at the northeast corner and linked to the main body of the cottage by a single bay containing a corniced entrance. The drum tower rises above the wallhead and incorporates decorative corbelling in its upper portion, along with two gabled dormers set within a conical, bellcast roof that culminates in a large metal ventilator and windvane. Windows are primarily simple four-pane sashes, set within narrow openings. A central ridge stack is present, and the roofs are bellcast slate, finished with apex finials. The drum tower was likely used as a former dairy.

The Milking Parlour is a mid-19th century, long, low, rectangular building with a single storey and loft. It has a central entrance (facing south) sheltered by a bracketted canopy that creates a balcony for the loft window in the attic. The walls are constructed of harl pointed rubble with contrasting tooled sandstone dressings. Single windows are set high and flank the centre door. Short, single-storey, single-bay wings project from the south gable, featuring narrow slit windows and end doors. The building is capped by a shallow jerkin-headed slate roof with deep, joisted eaves. A large door has been inserted into the west elevation. The interior is gutted. The building appears in the style of George Devey, dating from the mid-19th Century.