Barn, Byres, Hemmels, Loose Boxes And Gin Gang To North Of Oxclose Farmhouse

This building complex includes a barn, byres, hemmels, loose boxes, and a gin gang, located to the north of Oxclose Farmhouse. It was constructed in the mid-19th century and features coursed sandstone rubble with stock brick or ashlar dressings. The gin gang has red brick dressings, while the roofs are covered with Welsh slate, pantiles, and some renewed French tiles, topped with yellow ridge tiles and a stone finial. The barn roof is made of concrete tiles. The layout is square, with the gin gang positioned to the north of the main barn and a central range attached to the north barn. The south byre extends beyond the square at the southeast corner.

The gin gang is supported by five square piers made of stone and brick, which hold up a polygonal roof with a hat-shaped finial. The adjoining two-storey barn features a Dutch door on the left and three elliptical cart entrances on the right, each with keyed brick arches on ashlar piers. Above these entrances are three loft openings, which are partly hit-and-miss and partly glazed, with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The high barn on the right has two tall cart entrances with elliptical brick arches over boarded double doors and small square vents at the eaves. The byre on the left has a boarded double door leading to the hay-room and three lights that are partly glazed and partly hit-and-miss, set in ashlar surrounds. The south byre, which completes the square, includes a boarded door, double doors, and two Dutch doors, along with renewed glazing in seven windows and ridge pot ventilators.

Inside the courtyard, there is a hemmel attached to the barn featuring a low segmental brick arch over a water trough, along with two pig-sties at the south end that have blocked feeding openings. The interior of the east range has wood-slatted partitions and triangular-plan mangers.