Barn And Attached Farm Buildings At Red House Farm

The barn and attached farm buildings at Red House Farm were built around 1860 for Ushaw College and may have been designed by Hansom, who also designed Ushaw Home Farm. The structure is made of coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings, featuring roofs covered with pantiles, stone-flagged eaves, yellow ridge tiles, and some concrete tiles. The layout is U-shaped, with a two-storey, three-bay barn on the north side, and one-storey sheds projecting from the outer bays. The rear gables of the sheds are connected by a wall to eaves height, creating a foldyard.

The north elevation of the barn features flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills above partly-glazed square openings on the ground floor in each bay. The left side has similar lintels over three doors, with the central door being boarded and the outer doors blocked. There are also flat stone lintels above two small rectangular vent slits near the top of the gable peak, and a longer vent opening with a pointed head cut out of the stone lintel. The rear ranges are blank on the outer returns.

The right return gable has stone lintels over two ground-floor doors and a central first-floor boarded loft opening, along with a vent slit with a pointed head at the gable peak. The rear ranges are blank on the outer returns, and the inner returns were not inspected.

Inside the barn, there are chamfered posts and beams supporting the ground-floor stalls, and the roof is well-constructed with collared secondary rafters.