Octagonal Dairy, The Glen

Circa 1880 for Sir Charles Tennant (designed and constructed by The Glen masons and joiners). Single storey, multi-bayed, rectangular-plan, picturesque dairy with canted gabled porch and octagonal cold room. Coursed and squared local whinstone rubble with yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. Octagonal piended roof to E end.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: very wide, canted timber entrance porch with paired heavy turned timber supports to front holding pitched timber gable (with spiked finial) and catslide roof to flanks, further matching upright to rear left with timber balustraded in-fill to bottom left and right; canted timber boarded door (to octagonal dairy) to left and similarly styled door to right leading to house. To right of entrance porch, pair of rectangular windows and to left of porch, advanced octagonal dairy (see below).

SE (DAIRY) ELEVATION: single storey, octagonal end with window (within ashlar surround) to each face; overhanging roof with exposed timber rafters.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: regularly fenestrated elevation with circa 1920 timber and glazing lean-to glasshouse.

NW ELEVATION: gabled end (originally with now blind central window) concealed behind much later timber lean-to store with entrance in left return.

Pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves and exposed painted timber rafters; lead roll-ridging. Octagonal piended roof to dairy with lead roll-ridging and ventilated section near apex, spiked timber finial surmounting.

INTERIOR: original timber work on boarded doors and skirting boards. Octagonal dairy with half height tiling, tiled floor (squares with diamonds inset in lieu of corner angles) marble shelving on arched brackets, central marble console with bracketed legs supporting round marble table top with stalk holding further round top.