One of Langley's oldest buildings is getting a bit of a facelift this winter.

The Dixon Barn has been the scene of furious activity, as volunteers and craftsmen bring it back to a state of good repair, after the years and several storms have taken their toll.

Fred Pepin, a longtime Langley heritage activist, was out at the site recently, working with carpenters Bruce McTaggart and Robert Young, to finish putting siding up on the structure, which is almost 100 years old.

Once the siding is up, painting will make the building look much as it did when it was built during the First World War.

The Langley Heritage Society has been heavily involved in the work over the past several years. Pepin has been on-site frequently, working with a number of tradespeople as first the interior, and now exterior of the building were spruced up.

Built between 1916 and 1918 on Glover Road near Mufford Crescent, both the Dixon house and its barn are heritage structures.

The property was purchased by the Township a few years ago as park land. It is now part of a large stretch of land starting at Glover Road and continuing south to McLeod Athletic Park at 56th Avenue.

Although the property has been known as the Dixon House for many years, it was not actually built by the Dixon family.

Property titles revealed that John Norris, a settler who lived in Milner between 1890 and 1922, actually built the home.

The Dixons had a dairy farm directly adjacent to Morris's property, and families and land in those days often became intertwined, she noted.

The first Dixon in the Lower Mainland was pioneer Alfred Dixon, who ran a sawmill in Mission. It was his son Herbert, a clerk for the city of Richmond, who bought the home.