Farm Buildings And Two Houses Circa 50 Metres North Of Ryehills Farmhouse

REDCAR REDCAR ROAD north NZ 62 SW side (off), Marske 5/99 Farm buildings and 2 houses c.50m north of Ryehills Farmhouse. G.V. II

Barn and byre range, c.1800, with later C19 stable/granary and cart shed flanking porch of barn; engine house adjoining rear of barn, and stable adjoining left byre. End byres and rear extensions converted to dwellings, that at right end extended to rear; links to barn raised by one storey c.1985. Chevron-tooled dressed sandstone. Roofs of,Welsh slate in diminishing courses; renewed clay pantiles on houses. Stone ridge and gable copings. Symmetrical, on 3 sides of octagonal yard. Barn has central gabled projecting porch with boarded double doors in segment-arched opening. Right single-storey, 3-bay, lean-to cart shed with plain piers, and left 2-storey, 3-bay, lean-to stable/granary, flank the porch. Stable/granary has off-centre boarded door and altered hit-and-miss and louvred windows. 2-storey, 3-bay houses at ends of range, have pilaster strips at angles, segment-arched openings, now partly blocked and holding stone-mullioned windows, on ground floor. Original first-floor windows now hold mullioned casements. One-bay links to houses have doorways with segment-headed lintels under keyed lintels. Hipped and gabled roofs, houses sprocketed at eaves. One-storey, single-bay wing adjoins left of left house. Rear of barn shows central doorway with plain pedimented surround. Slit breathers on ground floor, below eaves, and in gable ends. Single-storey, lean-to engine house adjoins right of doorway. Barn, cart shed and stable/granary disused and dilapidated at time of resurvey. Remains of milking parlour adjoining south-west corner of range, is too derelict to be of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ6237622591