Farm Buildings To West Of Horton Grange Farmhouse

The farm buildings to the west of Horton Grange Farmhouse were constructed around 1858, with a dovecot dated 1863 on its lintel. They were built for Sir Matthew White Ridley. The buildings are made of coursed squared sandstone, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings, and are topped with Welsh slate roofs that have stone gable copings.

The layout includes a courtyard with granaries and a central corn drier on the north side, flanked by hemmels in front of storage sheds. The south side is enclosed by a low range that features a central square dovecot, along with two detached turnip houses in the yard. The buildings are primarily one storey, with the north range being higher and a three-storey tower on the south range. The north range has five bays, with three-bay wings, while the south range consists of seven bays. The turnip houses are one storey and one bay each.

Notable architectural features include a central pediment with a blind roundel above a sliding door in the north range, flanked by two square lights with glazing bars. There are elliptical-headed arches on slightly chamfered stone piers beside the central door and at the inner returns of the wings. In the south range, the dovecot has external stone steps leading to a central boarded door on the first floor, with a similar door on the ground floor to the right. The outer elevation of the dovecot features hit-and-miss windows on two floors and a roundel with glazing bars on the third floor, topped with a weathervane finial on its pyramidal roof. The low ranges flanking the dovecot have timber lintels above three boarded doors facing the field. Inside, the farm buildings display scissor-trussed roofs.

Historically, Kelly's directory for 1858 describes these buildings as part of a model farm, noted for being the most complete and extensive in Northumberland.