Survey Data
Reg No
15701521
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Farmyard complex
In Use As
Farmyard complex
Date
1842 - 1904
Coordinates
296337, 147123
Date Recorded
13/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Farmyard complex, extant 1904, on a quadrangular plan about a courtyard including (west): Detached five-bay single-storey coach house-cum-stable outbuilding with half attic on a rectangular plan. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, central rooflight to front (east) pitch, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on "Cavetto"-detailed exposed timber rafters. Cement rendered walls. Square-headed central door opening in segmental-headed recess with red brick block-and-start surround framing timber boarded half-door. Square-headed flanking window openings in segmental-headed recesses with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber fittings having wrought iron bars. Pair of segmental-headed carriageways with red brick block-and-start surrounds having stepped reveals; (east): Attached single-bay (two-bay deep) single-storey gable-fronted steward's house with half-dormer attic on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1911. Now disused. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with roll moulded clay ridge tiles centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having stepped capping, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on "Cavetto"-detailed exposed timber rafters. Part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast wall to front (south) elevation with red brick quoins to corners; cement rendered surface finish (remainder) with red brick quoins to corners. Segmental-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Set in grounds shared with Farmley House.
Appraisal
A farmyard complex contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Farmley House estate.