Survey Data
Reg No
12402409
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Farmyard complex
Date
1725 - 1837
Coordinates
259746, 148853
Date Recorded
01/01/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Farmyard complex, extant 1837, including: Attached five-bay single-storey coach house-cum-stable outbuilding with half-attic on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched roof with no slate on timber batons on felt on timber construction. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls retaining sections of lime rendered surface finish with concealed flush quoins to corners. Group of there elliptical-headed central carriageways with red brick block-and-start surrounds framing infill. Lunettes centred on square-headed door openings in round-headed recesses with red brick voussoirs framing remains of timber fittings. Set in grounds shared with Castlefield House.
Appraisal
A farmyard complex contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Castlefield House estate.