Old Milk Factory (Ice Cremery) adjacent to Greenfield House

The Old Milk Factory, also known as the Ice Creamery, is a mid-19th century building originally designed for milk processing. It later served as an egg packing station and a joinery workshop.

This three-storey structure is made of red brick and features four oversailing courses at the eaves and verges, with short returns along the gable front. It has a slate roof with roof lights and a simple rectangular plan. The gable end facing the road has a tall central opening with a segmental arched head, which has been infilled with a modern loading door on each storey. Above these doors is the stub of a winch pulley. Flanking the central door are symmetrical windows; the first and second floors have small-paned metal frame windows in segmental headed openings, while the ground floor has modern windows under plain wood lintels. The side walls also feature identical metal frame windows in a regular arrangement, with the central window on the east side wall replaced by a plank loading door. The gable end facing Greenfield House had a former door entry from the house, which is now blocked in brick.

Inside, the ground floor is subdivided with modern partitions, while the first and second floors are open plan. The first floor has massive transverse beams supported by cast-iron columns, and the second floor features exposed king-post trusses resting on the wall plate. The top floor was used as Village Assembly Rooms for meetings and entertainment in the late 19th century.

The Milk Factory is part of a group with Greenfield House and City House (The Post Office), representing a brief period of entrepreneurial development in Four Crosses during the mid-19th century. The industrialization of milk processing was closely linked to the growth of specialized dairy herds on expanded farmyards in Domgay and Haughton.