Farmbuildings And Yard Walls To North Of Home Farm

The farm buildings and yard walls located to the north of Home Farm date from around 1830. They are constructed from squared tooled stone with ashlar dressings and feature slate roofs. The buildings form a range around a yard that is open to the south and divided into four sections, with a central detached loose box.

The north range consists of three parts, including a central barn that is two storeys high with three wide bays. This barn has a central segmental arch flanked by slit vents and three windows above. The lower side sections, which are slightly recessed, are also two storeys high and each has four-bay arcades with seven windows above. Inside the barn, there are flights of stone steps flanking the central arch in the north wall.

The west range is a single storey with eight bays and features a stable door in the second bay leading to a former smithy. It has boarded doors and a stepped, corniced brick ridge stack with ashlar dressings. The east range is also a single storey with six bays, including a boarded door and double doors. At the rear, there is a pent shelter shed with eight open bays supported by round columns and timber lintels, which connects to the stable on the north side. The loose box has a gabled front with double doors under a segmental arch. The yard walls include monolithic gate piers, gabled coping, and stone feeding troughs on the internal faces, with the front wall recessed to the right featuring a pair of stone drinking troughs.

On the rear elevation, there is a central gable from the projecting threshing barn that has two tiers of three slit vents. To the right, there is an engine house with a tower that combines a dovecote and chimney. This tower has three stages, raised quoins, a broad chamfered setback above the first stage, and moulded strings above the upper stages. An external stone stair leads to a first-floor door, and on the third stage, there are three pigeon openings above an alighting band on each face. The interior of the tower contains nesting boxes and an internal stack.

All openings, except for those of the loose box, have raised and chamfered stone surrounds, with doorways featuring alternating-block jambs and windows having extended sills and lintels, including the slit vents. The gables are coped with kneelers and have moulded eaves courses.

This group of buildings is of high quality, with the dovecote and chimney being particularly unusual. At the time of the survey, some parts of the buildings were partly derelict and roofless.