Survey Data
Reg No
12402411
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Farmyard complex
In Use As
Farmyard complex
Date
1735 - 1745
Coordinates
254997, 147972
Date Recorded
01/01/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Farmyard complex, established 1740, including: (i) Detached five-bay two-storey stable outbuilding. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble limestone walls. Camber-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, yellow brick block-and-start surrounds, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings to ground floor with camber-headed door openings to first floor having timber lintels, yellow brick block-and-start surrounds, tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-doors to ground floor having overlights, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors to first floor. Set back from road in grounds shared with Maiden Hall about a stone cobbled courtyard with random rubble limestone boundary wall to courtyard having rendered coping, and rubble limestone piers having rendered capping. (ii) Freestanding cast-iron waterpump, c.1900, comprising banded cylindrical shaft with spout, moulded necking supporting fluted cylindrical head having curvilinear 'cow tail' handle, and fluted ogee-domed capping on stringcourse having finial.
Appraisal
A middle-size outbuilding range together with a collection of related artefacts forming a modest-scale farmyard complex contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Maiden Hall estate.