Outbuilding In Garden 25 Metres To Rear Of Beechtree Lodge

This outbuilding, located 25 meters behind Beechtree Lodge, was originally built around 1815 for Sir J T Stanley. It has served various purposes, including a pigcote, shippon, and earth closet, and is now used as a study and storage space. Constructed from tooled ashlar red sandstone, it features a Kerridge stone-slate roof with a stone ridge. The building has a rectangular plan and consists of one and two stories with a five-bay south front.

The central two bays are two stories high and were formerly a two-stall shippon with a hay loft above. On the left side, there is a three-light chamfered stone-mullioned window, with a five-board door to the right, all beneath a massive cambered stone lintel. Above, a circular pitch hole has been glazed. To the left, a lower section served as a pigcote and has a rectangular door, though the pen wall is partly demolished. On the right, a similar-sized section has two doors with cambered heads, one of which leads to a two-seater earth closet. This building reflects the cottage economy principles advocated by early 19th-century agricultural reformers.