Very much in the arts-and-crafts mode, the dairy is built of local shale, typical of the Richmond district: a double storey building square in form with a wide steeply pitched verandah on all four sides, deliberately designed to keep the interior of the building, with its highly perishable contents: cool; the verandah has turned wooden verandah posts with simple ornamental braces: the Broseley tiled hipped roof is crowned with a cupola vent; shale walls with brick quoining:other features include the entrance portico over which is a gantry,loft entrance and weather vane: timber French door and double casement windows each with four vertically arranged panes:several massive wooden churns are still in existence.
Alterations: major alterations and additions carried out over the years: much of the building has since been restored.
The Old Dairy, with ten metres of land to the north-west, north-east and south-east sides of the structure, as well as two metres of land to the south-west side of the structure, situated on the Remainder of the farm Nel'sRust 849 in Richmond District.
