The Old Barn

SD 71 NW TURTON (off) CHAPELTOWN ROAD

7/104 The Old Barn (formerly listed as Barn at Turton Tower Farm) 28.10.1963 GV II

Large barn, dated 1697, altered as dwelling since first listed. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, stone slate roof now with small chimney at left end, stone gable copings and kneelers with ball finials. Now 2 storeys; offset to right of centre is gabled porch with ball finials to the kneelers and at the apex, the round-headed entrance arch now glazed, with a door. The wall to the left of the porch incorporates a shaped door lintel lettered "I" "C"; beyond are 3 round-headed "1697" lancets at ground floor and 4 narrow windows at 1st floor, and various inserted windows. To the right of the porch are 2 large inserted windows on each floor. Left gable wall has continuous dripstone stepped over shaped lintels at each end and over a blocked 2-light mullioned window in the centre, at 1st floor in the centre a blocked doorway with a shaped lintel and a hoodmould, 2 narrow windows each side; and in the gable a blocked owl hole. Rear wall has been radically altered by insertion of very large windows.

Listing NGR: SD7314215148