Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26436651

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)