Farm Buildings At Lark Hall Yard

MACCLESFIELD

SJ9373 COTTAGE LANE 886-1/7/71 (East side) 17/03/77 Farm buildings at Lark Hall Yard (Formerly Listed as: LARK HALL YARD, COTTAGE LANE Nos.1-7 (Odd))

GV II

Group of farm buildings forming a courtyard, including threshing barn and shelter sheds. Part dated 1874. Coursed and squared rubble and brick with stone-flagged roofs. Barn forms one side of courtyard, with open structure facing yard, the roof carried on brick piers. Central entrance with low brick walls to storage bays each side. Rear elevation has central double doors in segmental archway dated 1874 with initials SA in the keystone. Smaller segmental arched openings to upper loft with plank shutters set beneath gabled dormers with finials to bargeboards. Flanking shelter sheds form right-angled returns of courtyard, with segmentally-arched openings (blocked in western unit) in rear elevation forming symmetrical composition with barn. Some alteration to openings on courtyard side, but original stabling(?) survives in right-hand (eastern) range: 2 doorways and 3 windows. Open shelter shed alongside, the roof carried on cast-iron column. Similar structure to left hand range, with some open shelter bays as well as enclosed animal accommodation. Probably built or rebuilt as a single planned development.

Listing NGR: SJ9301473512