Farmbuilding Group To North Of Barnforth Hall

NZ 11 NE BARFORTH BARFORTH HALL

4/9 Farmbuilding group to north of Barforth Hall

GV II

Planned farmbuildings. Late C18 with early C19 wheel-house. Rubble with cut quoins and tooled-and-margined dressings. Stone slate roofs except for Welsh slates on wheel-house, C20 metal sheets on adjacent cartshed, and pantiles on east range outshut. Ranges around yard open to south; wheel-house to rear of north range.

Elevations to yard: north range 2 storeys, 4 bays. Boarded double doors in tall segmental arch. To right window with keyed lintel; 2 part-slatted windows above. East range 2 storeys, 3 bays. 2 stable doors with keyed lintels, and windows (the upper slatted) with tooled-and-margined lintels. Far left stone stair to boarded upper door. Right return shows boarded pitching door. West range in 2 parts: 2-storey left section with boarded pitching door; right single-storey 4-bay shelter shed with tooled-and-margined piers, timber lintels and later infill.

External elevations: Hexagonal wheel-house to north has boarded door and 3 blocked windows; attached cartshed to left. Outshut at rear of east range shows 3 stable doors and 2 small windows.

Interior: east range has reset Cl6 ceiling: 7 deeply-moulded transverse beams with 14 roll-moulded joists to each bay. This may be from the west range of Barforth Hall, demolished in the early C19.

Listing NGR: NZ1639216751