Locally it goes by the name Hill's Dairy, after the family who once held the estate, and what survives of it is an oddly substantial remnant for something as prosaic as a farm outbuilding.

By 1842, when the first Ordnance Survey six-inch maps were being compiled, the site was already a sizeable complex: a yard surrounded by long ranges on the north-east and south-east sides, with a shorter structure closing the north-west corner. The whole thing was marked simply as "Dairy". Sixty years later, the 1906 revision of the same maps showed the layout largely unchanged in plan but annotated the buildings as ruins, with one exception. The north-eastern range had survived in use and continues to do so today as a single-storey, five-bay, gable-ended house. The south-eastern range is another matter entirely. It measures roughly 31 metres along its length but only about three metres across internally, a long narrow shell whose north-west wall retains a series of stone-arched doorways and one notably wide arch, suggesting the original function required frequent movement of animals or equipment through the building. Somewhere around 900 metres to the west, the 1842 map also marked an earlier structure called the "Old Dairy"; that building has not survived at all. The place-name alone implies a working landscape organised around dairy farming over several generations, with the Hill family's complex representing a later, more formal phase of that activity.