Ushaw Home Farm Main Block And Wall Attached

Ushaw Home Farm Main Block and attached wall is a planned farm building complex designed by Joseph Hansom, constructed between 1851 and 1852. The structure features coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, a Welsh slate roof adorned with yellow roll-moulded ridge tiles, and stone gable copings. The farm is designed in an E-plan and exhibits Gothic style elements.

The main block stands three storeys tall at the front and two storeys at the rear, with front gables over the end bays and a projecting central bay. It consists of seven bays between the gables, totaling 17 bays. The two-storey wings have ten bays on their inner returns and two-bay returns to the central projection. The ground floor features chamfered flat-pointed arches above boarded doors and Dutch doors, with similar arch heads on small ground and first-floor windows, some of which are paired. The second floor has tall 2-centred-arched openings that are partly blocked and partly louvred. The central gable includes a blocked boarded door in a 2-centred arch on each floor, with smaller flanking windows above and paired below the top door, and a pulley projecting above the top window. Vent slits are present on the first floor of the wings, and each wing has an open arch next to the main block, leading to steps on the left and a ramp on the right to a higher rear ground level. The rear features wide cart entrances below loft openings.

A high retaining wall curves approximately 75 degrees from the left wing, with a round-coped parapet that forms a round enclosure behind at a higher level. The original layout was well-planned, intended for milk cows on the ground floor, fat cattle on the second floor, and haylofts above, with turnips rolled directly into the cowhouse from a chute in the field behind.