Building record 3320/3/6 - The Dairy

Dairy, now offices. Built c.1765. Limestone ashlar and coursed limestone rubble, slate roofs, stone ridge stack.

{1} Dairy, now offices. Built c.1765. Limestone ashlar and coursed limestone rubble, slate roofs, stone ridge stack. 3-unit plan. 1 storey; 3 bays. Tripartite composition with tall central pedimented archway flanked by lower wings of 1 bay with lean-to roofs and half-pediments to front. Wings have 18-pane sashes with stone lintels. Centre projects slightly and is preceded by 2 stone steps. Elliptical-arched opening with screen of two Roman Doric columns and pilasters either end. Order has high bases, strong entasis and full entablature with triglyph frieze, and reaches to springing of arch. Central doorway to dairy within recess with panelled part-glazed door with stone lintel flanked by narrow 1-light windows with similar lintels. Horizontal oval window above door. Moulded impost band carried across wings to define base of half-pediments. Rear elevation of rubble stone. Wings project on this side and frame timber trellis-work verandah. Central door to dairy; horizontal oval window above. Interior has central room with high plaster groin-vaulted ceiling. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p144).

{4} To its south-west is the colonnaded front of the Dairy (listed grade II), a limestone ashlar pavilion-like building of 1765 6 designed by Lancelot Brown as an addition to the home farm. In the Brownian landscape there would have been a sight line between this and the Temple.

{5} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 13/19 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F12 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.144 (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> English Heritage, 1994, Register of Parks & Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England (1994, Northamptonshire), (unchecked0 (Report). SNN1324.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Castle Ashby (Photographs). SNN111838.

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Aug 4 2021 3:59PM