Description
Mid 19th century with some alterations in mid 19th century. Stugged rubble sandstone with droved margins; raised cills. Plan organised around central passage; rectangular-plan to W consisting of granary and large cattle feeding sheds with quadrangular plan ranges to E with stables and storage around small cattle-court. Main 2-storey range consisting of stables with storage sheds over. Slate and pantile roofs, some corrugated asbestos and sheet metal; slate eaves easing courses to cattle courts.
SE RANGE: 2-storey, 9-bay main range with single storey 4-bay range of covered cattle courts to outer left. Pend entrance in 2nd bay to left; segmental arch with droved voussoirs framed by 2, tall, narrow arch pedestrian openings; boarded side doors with plain letterbox fanlights lead to upper floors and to stable to right. Paired window above pend; flanking windows to left and right at ground and 1st floor. 2 boarded, sliding doors to right; that in penultimate bay gives access to stable and has wooden stair immediately within door to upper level. Door to outer right gives access to stable; cobbled floor with corner wooden stall and cast-iron fittings; boarded wooden roof; cobbled floor. 2 small windows between doors on exterior. Boarded hoist door at 1st floor to left of centre between doors; blinded window above end door. Lower single storey cattle courts to W; originally 7 feeding doors now blocked, with droved margins in 3 sheds to right.
INTERIOR: main entrance to yard through arched pend; small door to left leads into small room with circular brick furnace and square chimney. Single storey stables to right; original upswept, wooden, stable trevis and cast- iron columns; cobbled floor. 2-storey grain storage shed at N end of stable range connected by roofed upper level gangway to granary which spans left side. Cast-iron cattle-crush against E wall of granary. Long granary store with wooden conveyor system along roof connected to granary proper, now with more modern machinery.
NE RANGE: end wall of stables; 4 decorative segmental- headed, cast-iron, quaterfoil ventilation grids. 3-bay bothy to right, 2-leaf, boarded door at centre with 4-pane letterbox fanlight; flanking windows (3-pane fixed glazing). 6 bay range to right consisting of boarded door with 4-pane letterbox fanlight; pend into cattle court, 2 centre boarded half doors with fanlights, outer boarded door and opening to covered storage area at rear of feeding shed at N end of court.
NE CATTLE COURT: central area with covered feeding sheds on N and S sides; coupled rafter roof supported on central cast-iron columns. Rubble and lime washed feeding troughs; wooden hay-hecks suspended from roof. 3, half-doors on E side, partially blocked; 2 doors on W side at higher level to stables. All walls lime-washed.
N RANGE: implement shed to left and end wall of granary store; 2-leaf boarded door and window (boarded lower and glazed upper)at ground; boarded hoist door at upper level.
End wall of 2-storey granary and end walls of cattle court to outer right; doorway at junction between 2 blocks and sliding door at outer right.
SW RANGE: W wall of cattle feeding sheds; 5, boarded sliding doors concentrated to right of elevation.
W CATTLE COURT: very large cattle wintering sheds, originally covered-in now unroofed in parts. Roof supported by cast-iron columns; 6 main feeding areas divided by main gangway and side access; doors in E wall into grain store; boarded sliding doors in W wall to exterior. Rubble, lime-washed feeding troughs run length of buildng; suspended, wooden, hay-hecks.