Main Farmbuilding Group To North Of Park Farmhouse

This is a planned group of farm buildings dated 1827, with a Percy crescent on the keystone of the entrance arch, likely designed by J. & B. Green. Later alterations, including a covered yard probably dating to the late 19th century, were made. The main ranges are constructed of ashlar, with a rock-faced extension to the east; the covered yard's superstructure is timber on cast-iron columns, all under Welsh slate roofs. The buildings were originally arranged around a rectangular yard open to the south, with a barn and cartsheds extending further east. A later south range and the covered yard were subsequently added.

The west elevation is nine bays wide, with one and two storeys, arranged symmetrically. The building has a plinth and an eaves cornice. The central section features boarded double doors under a segmental arch with a dated keystone, flanked by ornamental loops. Above is a sill band and a 12-pane sash window, topped by a pedimented gable containing a boarded lunette and a weathervane with a pierced Percy crescent. The lower flanking three-bay sections have arcades of blind round arches with impost bands, below blind windows with slightly-projecting sills, and hipped roofs. Single-storey end pavilions each have a segmental arch enclosing a doorway with small flanking windows; the left side is boarded, the right is blind.

The east range features a similar central piece, which is the end of the barn, flanked by single-storey parts, each with three elliptical arches supported by stop-chamfered piers and impost blocks. The north range has a six-bay, two-storeyed centre with a similar arcade, flanked by single-storey parts. The south elevation mirrors the west front with end pavilions, and a single-storey, six-bay south range sits between them, with projecting end bays – the one on the right also featuring a segmental arch. The covered yard superstructure has two slatted gables carried on a central six-bay arcade.

The rear elevation of the east range shows a projecting barn with an altered engine house on the right, alongside various later additions. A cartshed on the far right has two elliptical arches on its left return.

The buildings retain some original boarded doors and windows, though some fenestration has been renewed. The gables of the two-storey part of the north range, the cartshed, and the east end of the barn have circular openings above a stepped eaves cornice that extends horizontally across the end wall.

This is an impressive group of buildings, originally serving as the Duke of Northumberland’s home farm within the park.