The Old Dairy and The Coach House

The fourth and fifth phases of restoration, bringing the total investment to over £600,000 was for the Old Dairy across the Courtyard and The Coach House further along Castle Street. They were completed in 1989. The pictures below show the Old Dairy as it was opened by the Lord Lieutenant of Buckingham that year whilst a cow grazed in the car park for perhaps the last time that century. Dr Julian Wills, ( who had worked with Barber and Dawkins on a gap year on the restoration work at the Old Dairy and had earlier painted the map of the world for Marriotts ) now provided a Vacherian Mural for the Principal’s PA.. The Principal’s office was downstairs magnificently furnished in yew whilst the Loft area upstairs - where a milk bottle sculpture put Damien Hirst to shame - was just five years later to be the scene of IMCA’s history making journey to Bulletin Boards then the Internet.

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Finally, The Coach House was comprehensively restored first as a warehouse and then as a home for the Bursar before following Hill House out of IMCA ownership. The restored pargetting on the exterior records IMCA(B)’s involvement there in 1987.