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The oldest part of the house dates from c1550, when it was a three story ragstone and timber store for the village flour mill (Brooklyn next door is what is left of the old Mill). There was an expansion c1750 of the middle part, which turned it into the miller’s house, and another c1800 of the stream end, when it was converted into two cottages, the Miller then built a new house nearby. One cottage was a Blacksmith (the yard end of the building) and a beer house (the Rose) at the other end. There was a separate door where the bay window is and its own path to Kirkdale. By c1900 both trades had gone. In 1913 it became the village dairy, this closed in 1955 and it then became a private dwelling. It was bought by the Proctors in 1970.
The division of land between The Dairy House and Brooklyn has changed many times over the centuries with the division for a while being the stream. There have been shops/buildings at the top of the garden near Bridge street in the past. In very dry weather, there are traces of an old lean to on the end of the lounge and another building in the main lawn.