Raby Home Farm With Walls Attached

Raby Home Farm, built in the mid-18th century by J. Paine, is a planned farm that features a folly screen and incorporates medieval masonry, including a carved Bull emblem from the demolished barbican of Raby Castle. The screen is constructed from varied sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, set on a plinth of dark rounded stones. The farm buildings are made of coursed squared sandstone, with some parts rendered and limewashed, and include ashlar quoins and dressings. The folly has stone coping, while the farmhouse has a pantiled roof with stone-flagged eaves. Other buildings have roofs made of Welsh slate and concrete tiles, with brick and stone chimneys.

The layout is U-shaped in a Gothic style, consisting of two ranges of houses, cottages, and farm buildings linked by a screen at the east end facing Raby Castle. The screen is symmetrical, featuring a high segmental archway in a low-gabled center that projects outward. There are cross loops on either side of the arch under a string course that continues as a parapet band along the flanking walls, which have higher central triangular projections. The outer ends of the walls meet the gable ends of the farm buildings, which have late 19th-century sash windows in canted sides and high blocked two-centred arches beneath an eaves band. The screen is embattled between these gables.

To the left, there is one house, while the right side has a long range of farm buildings and cottages that were originally linked to a central range of farmhouse and cottages, with the east gable positioned about 10 meters behind the central arch of the screen. The west end of this layout is now interrupted, but the essential form of the farm remains as noted by Arthur Young, with a rubble wall on the south side.