The Dairy
THE DAIRY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143794
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Dairy
- Statutory Address:
- THE DAIRY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143794
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Dairy
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DAIRY
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE DAIRY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Michael's Mount
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 51486 29955
Details
MARAZIQN ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT SW 53 SW 1/54 (was part of 3/157) The Dairy
GV II
Dairy (until 1909). Circa 1870s. By Piers St Aubyn, modelled on the Abbot's Kitchen at Glastonbury. Rock-faced granite brought to course with granite dressings. Octagonal plan corbelled granite surmounted by granite ventilator with steeper granite roof and ball finial. Stone chimney over right-hand (south) wall of flat roofed dairy kitchen. Plan: octagonal-on-plan cool dairy, left, entrance porch, middle, and rectangular-on- plan dairy kitchen right. Exterior : Single storey. Dairy, left, has 3-light mullioned window to front, rear, and the left-hand faces and weathered diagonal buttresses to the outer angles. Chamfered plinth and coved wall-plate cornice. Shouldered doorway to porch with 4- light window at rear. The dairy kitchen, right, projects at front and rear and has 2-light windows: 1 at the front and 2 at the rear. Interior : preserved as a Victorian dairy with its original fittings: slate shelves in the cool dairy; fireplaces in the dairy kitchen for creamers and for heating water and large sink with wooden draining board. Stone floors. Sources : St Michael's Mount, by John St Aubyn.
Listing NGR: SW5153029998
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 69964
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
St Aubyn, J, St Michaels Mount, (1978)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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