Survey Data
Reg No
22902122
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Farmyard complex
In Use As
Farmyard complex
Date
1810 - 1850
Coordinates
212238, 99346
Date Recorded
05/01/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Farmyard complex, c.1830, comprising: (i) Detached fifteen-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding retaining original aspect. Hipped slate roof with clay and rolled lead ridge tiles, squared rubble stone chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls with lime mortar. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and squared rubble stone voussoirs. 1/1 and 8/4 timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings (including to first floor side (west) elevation approached by flight of cut-stone steps having random rubble stone parapet) with squared rubble stone voussoirs, timber boarded doors, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-doors. (ii) Detached single-bay single-storey coach house to south with elliptical-headed carriageway. Reroofed, c.1930. Hipped roof with replacement corrugated-iron, c.1930, rolled iron ridge tiles, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Unpainted roughcast lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction. Elliptical-headed carriageway with timber boarded double doors. (iii) Detached two-bay single-storey rubble stone lean-to outbuilding to east. Now derelict. Lean-to slate roof (now mostly collapsed) with clay ridge tiles, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on squared rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls with lime mortar, and squared rubble stone quoins to corner. Square-headed door openings with squared rubble stone voussoirs, and timber boarded doors. (iv) Gateway to courtyard comprising elliptical-headed carriageway in random rubble stone screen wall with squared rubble stone voussoirs, wrought iron double gates having finials, camber-headed flanking pedestrian gateway to south with squared rubble stone voussoirs, tongue-and-groove timber panelled door, squared rubble stone coping to parapet over having cut-stone bellcote on random rubble stone tapered base with round-headed aperture (bell now missing), stringcourse, and blocking course.
Appraisal
An attractive group of outbuildings forming the attendant farmyard complex to Belleville Park. In various states of repair, each of the outbuildings retains most of its original form and fabric. The complex is of particular importance as a reminder of the various activities necessary in the maintenance of a large-scale estate.