Corseyard Farm | |
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The Coo Palace | |
General information | |
Type | Dairy farm, converted into holiday accommodation |
Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
Classification | Category A listed building |
Location | Near Kirkandrews, Dumfries and Galloway |
Country | Scotland |
Coordinates | 54°48′44″N 4°11′39″W / 54.81222°N 4.19417°W |
Construction started | 1911 |
Completed | 1914 |
Renovated | 2020 |
Owner | Holiday Property Bond |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | G M Higginbottom |
Designations | Category A listed building |
Renovating team | |
Architect(s) | JMP Architects |
Website | |
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Corseyard Farm, known locally as the Coo Palace and now marketed under that name, is an architecturally unusual dairy farm near Kirkandrews in Scotland, built between 1911 and 1914 and since converted into holiday accommodation. Erected for the Manchester businessman James Brown as part of a series of flamboyant improvements to the Knockbrex Estate, which he had bought in 1894, it was designed in the Gothic Revival style to resemble a fortified castle with battlemented roofs, arrowslit windows and arched entrances.
The buildings were designated a Category A listed building in 1981, by which time they were already in a dilapidated condition. A number of schemes were proposed to rescue and repurpose the buildings between 1990 and 2010, and in 2017 consent was given for it to be converted into holiday accommodation by the Holiday Property Bond. Work was carried out on the site between 2018 and 2020, and it opened to receive its first holidaymakers in 2020.