Farmbuildings And Yard Walls To North Of Home Farm

CRESSWELL CRESSWELL HOME FARM NZ 29 SE 8/5 Farmbuildings and yard walls to north of Home Farmhouse GV II

Planned farmbuildings, c.1830. Squared tooled stone with ashlar dressings; slate roofs. Ranges around yard, open to south; yard divided into four, with central detached loose box. North range in 3 parts: central barn 2 storeys, 3 wide bays; central segmental arch flanked by slit vents; 3 windows above. Slightly-recessed lower 2-storey side sections,each with 4-bay arcades; 7 windows above. Barn interior shows flights of stone steps flanking central arch in north wall. West range 1 storey, 8 bays; stable door in bay 2 to former smithy, boarded doors, stepped and corniced brick ridge stack with ashlar dressings. East range 1 storey, 6 bays; boarded door and double doors. To rear pent shelter shed has 8 open bays with round columns and timber lintels, linked at north to stable (q.v.). Loose box has gabled front with double doors under segmental arch; yard walls with monolithic gate piers, gabled coping and stone feeding troughs on internal faces. Front wall recessed to right with pair of stone drinking troughs.

Rear elevation: central gable of projecting threshing barn with 2 tiers of 3 slit vents. Set back to right engine house with tower combining dovecote and chimney; 3 stages, raised quoins, broad chamfered setback above first stage and moulded strings above upper stages. External stone stair to 1st floor door; on third stage 3 pigeon openings above an alighting band on each face. Interior shows nesting boxes and internal stack.

All openings (except of the loose box) have raised and chamfered stone surrounds, the doorways with alternating-block jambs and the windows with extended sills and lintels; this includes the slit vents. Coped gables with kneelers, moulded eaves courses.

A high-quality group of buildings, the dovecote/chimney especially unusual. Partly derelict at the time of survey, some parts roofless.

Listing NGR: NZ2955491927