Corseyard Dairy or the ‘Coo Palace,Corseyard Cottage, Borgue, Kirkcudbright.
Model dairy steading built for James Brown of Knockbrex as part of his ambitious early 20th-century improvements of the Knockbrex estate. Loosely Italianate/vernacular details, careful and lavish use of materials to decorative effect, eg glazed tiling, Roman-style asbestos roof tiles, faience bricks internally. The steadings, which consist of a large milk parlour, stables,
cartsheds and barn, are laid out around a square courtyard, with a tall square tower as the dominant feature. Single and 2-storey buildings of tooled coursed masonry, depressed arch
windows and segmental vehicle entrances, all with bold keystones. Corbelled eaves with double row of decorative salt-glazed pantiles set in mortar bedding, ball finials to angles, red asbestos roof tiles in diamond pattern, ceramic ridge cresting.
Corseyard is unique in SW Scotland as a model dairy unit of the early 20th century and also for its architectural merit and quality of its finishings. (ref: Historic Scotland)
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