Former Byres And Shelter Sheds With Attached Wall At Park Head Farm

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ23SW A 688 634-1/2/11 (West side (off)) 06/05/86 Former byres and shelter sheds with attached wall at Park Head Farm (Formerly Listed as: Park Head Farm barns with attached wall)

GV II

Byres and shelter sheds (partly eye catcher), now stables, with boundary wall attached. Late C18. Coursed rubble with monolithic stone piers. Felt-covered roof with raised ventilators and small pantiled roof on pent addition to east range, Welsh slate roof with stone ridge on south range. Coursed stone boundary wall with flat stone coping. L-plan to south of Dutch barn (qv), boundary wall continuing north alongside main road and linking with north barns (qv). South range: one storey, 8:4 bays. North elevation facing yard has 4-bay range at right with round monolithic piers on chamfered round plinths supporting monopitch roof against west crow-stepped gable separating this from left part. Partly renewed in brick, and battlemented right return west gable facing Auckland Park. 8 bays set back at left have similar piers and lower monopitch roof. Adjacent east range breaks forward at left, set against high estate wall of coursed squared stone with flat coping, and has square piers with later blocking to form stables; small pent addition set back at left has pantiled roof. High estate wall facing road on east is ramped up to form rear wall of east range and continues to join barn and stable range (qv) to south-east of farmhouse (qv).

Listing NGR: NZ2305230937