Stables And Barn To East Of Lodge Farmhouse With Walls Attached

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ23SW A 688 634-1/2/5 (West side (off)) 06/05/86 Stables and barn to east of Lodge Farmhouse with walls attached (Formerly Listed as: AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK Lodge Farm barns with attached wall and gate-piers)

GV II

Stables and barn with walls attached. 1779 with C20 barn roof. Coursed rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings. Corrugated asbestos roof with louvred ridge ventilators on barn; pantiled roof on stable. One-storey, one-bay gable to south; left return facing yard has 2 storeys, 5:5 openings, the barn at left higher. South elevation has flat stone lintel to central boarded opening; voussoirs and recessed blocking to semicircular arch resting on bed of gable pediment, gable edges reinforced with triangular blocks. Steeply-pitched roof to stable range brings ridge to same height as barn; barn has 3 raised gabled ridge ventilators. Left return to yard has barn at left with boarded door and wedge stone lintel inserted in blocked full-height arched opening, hinge pins still in place in block jambs. Slit vents on ground floor and at centre right above, 2 louvred vents flanking slit at right above. Lower stable block to right has flat stone lintels to 2 boarded stable doors and thin wood lintel to third; flat stone sills to stable lights. INTERIOR shows opposed barn doors, deep splays to vent slits; king post roof trusses with diagonal struts; side purlins and vertical board ridge purlin.

Listing NGR: NZ2181731387