Linked Farmbuildings North East Of Bellister Castle

FEATHERSTONE BELLISTER ROAD NY 76 SW (South side, off) 16/90 Linked farmbuildings north-east of Bellister Castle GV II

Linked farmbuildings now loose-boxes and storage. Late C18 and C19 of several builds. Coursed, squared and dressed sandstone; concrete-tiled roofs; stone chimneys. U-plan ranges around farmyard with threshing barn and gin-gang on rear; combined cottage/coach house at right-angles on threshing barn.

U-plan range. Late C18-early C19, L-plan 2-storey north section of 2 builds: 2 segmental arches, boarded doors and first-floor hit-and-miss windows facing yard; roof hipped above junction with south section; stone stairway on outer return. Mid-late C19 L-plan single-storey south range of 2 builds: 2 elliptical arches, boarded doors and breathers facing yard; latticed casements on outer return; hipped roof.

Early C19 long 2-storey threshing barn: 3 end bays (converted into a cottage in late C19) with replaced casements, door and end stack. Early-mid C19 large square-plan gin-gang with altered and blocked openings and pitched roof. Coach house incorporates one bay of cottage at junction with former threshing barn: segmental archway and breather (in form of a cross-loop) in crowstepped, gabled front; 2-light mullioned window and similar gabled half-dormer on west return; roof has central ridge stack. Detached shed in farmyard and haybarn to north are not of special interest. Linked buildings included for group value.

Listing NGR: NY7010062998