Our neighbours on the far side of Station Road are the Dalehead Veterinary Group. Besides on-the-doorstep veterinary services they provide us with a good deal of amusement and entertainment. Dogs especially almost sing when coming round from anaesthetics. The processions of farmers around lambing time are a welcome component of spring.
They recently improved out northerly outlook with tree felling and then the building of brand new farm animal facilities, clad beautifully in red cedar.
Their main building though was functional and was I suppose influenced by the 1980s near-certainty that the adjacent Settle-Carlisle railway was about to close. Functional concrete block work were its outer walls over which we inevitably looked. Its roof was, and still is, off-the-shelf industrial in appearance.
They were there long before we were of course. But things changed recently with the installation of solar panels on the south facing slope of their roof which made for a bit of interest as well as helping the planet.
This week though things changed dramatically as the drab looking block work was most expertly clad in cedar too. At the back you can see the farm animals building with similar cladding. Pity about the water tower's shadow! It won't interfere with those panels as the sun gets higher in the sky.
At the start of the week I managed to grab a 'before' picture as work was starting. What a contrast:
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