Ushaw Home Farm Pigsties And Walls Attached To East

ESH USHAW NZ 2143 14/34 Ushaw Fome Farm pigsties and walls attached and to east

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Pigsties and wall attached; part of planned farm layout. 1851-2 by Joseph Hansom. Coursed squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; cast iron posts and iron-clad wood posts; roofs of Welsh slate with yellow ridge tiles, and stone gable copings. Long range of sties on north side of yard, with wide east and west entrances; south wall encloses exercise yard in front of south- west sties, and continues to yard of south-east sties.

North range has paired sties with round-arched open doorways; diagonally- recessed pairs of boarded doors flanked by square recesses over stone chutes to troughs. Cast iron posts on front walls support roof.

Round-coped wall around front of pig-yard forms boundary to road, and curves at entrances from road to farmyard. At west it forms exercise yard in front of pent-roofed sty with open front, the roof supported on iron-covered wood posts, and now partly blocked; at east it joins east wall of third building with yard on west side, and boarded Dutch door in east facing farmyard entrance; feeding chute on north side; hipped roof.

Part of the planned economy of the running of Ushaw College, with the pigs fed by the waste from the college kitchens.

Short wall to east encloses house garden and corresponds to south-west pigsty, forming walled entrance to farmyard.

Listing NGR: NZ2145143594