Farmbuildings To North West Of Wood House Farmhouse

NU 20 NW SHILBOTTLE WOOD HOUSE

10/236 Farmbuildings to north-west of Wood House Farmhouse GV II

Barn with engine-house, granary range and cartshed. Second quarter of C19, incorporating some C18 fabric. Squared rubble with tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings; engine-house stack brick in English Garden Wall Bond 1 & 3. Welsh slate roofs. Plan: Barn with engine-house on west; L-plan granary range and cartshed adjoin to south.

Elevation to former yard: Taller 2-bay barn to right has chamfered windows at ground and 1st floor levels. Lower 4-bay granary range shows 3 boarded doors, 2 chamfered segmental arches near left end, and 3 blocked granary windows in chamfered surrounds with slightly-projecting sills. Far left cartshed end; left return shows 5-bay arcade of chamfered segmental arches. Coped gables.

Rear (west) elevation: Barn at left has stable door with boarded double pitching doors over, both in chamfered surrounds, to left of projecting engine-house with stable door, in similar surround, and hip-ended roof above pent front part; right return chimney with chamfered band above tooled-and- margined stone base, and tapering stack with moulded ashlar cornice. Right granary range; left part has boarded double doors with timber lintel, right part has external stone stair to boarded door and 3 granary windows; C18 stonework and blocked openings in lower parts of wall.

Attached altered range to east of barn, and covered yards, are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NU2112508273