Farm Buildings To East Of East Benton Farmhouse

WALLSEND STATION ROAD (west side, off) NZ 26 NE 6/167 Farm buildings to east of East Benton Farmhouse. G.V. II Byres , stables, cart sheds, lofts and granary with engine house attached. Late C18/early C19 and engine house dated 1843 on cast iron plaque with monogram of John and Benjamin Green. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins; brick engine house; Welsh slate roofs with stone gable copings. Ranged around yard with inner fold-yard wall. North cart shed has square piers to 3 elliptical arches under 3 square lights partly boarded up; similar piers and wooden lintels to 2 later cart sheds added to right east range; pecked stone lintels to boarded door and Dutch door in each range, to pitching hole at left, to all windows at left and some at right, all with projecting stone sills; wood lintels to 2 boarded openings at right. Engine house to rear of east range shows internal high ashlar wall to granary with top beam of large scantling shaped to receive shaft.

Listing NGR: NZ2854268456