Workshop (Formerly Barn And Shippon) At Barnhill Grange

SJ 45 NE BROXTON C.P. BARNHILL LANE (North-east Side)

5/15 Workshop (formerly Barn and Shippon) at Barnhill Grange

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Barn and Shippon converted to Workshop, early C19, of creamwashed brown brick with grey slate roof. Rectangular, 2 storeys. The threshing barn (left) has a slightly projecting gabled porch with round-arched recess containing an opening 3 metres wide x 4 metres high with rectangular loading-door to granary above. To each side of porch are 2 narrower round-arched recesses 2 storeys high containing honeycomb brickwork for ventilation. The left end has 3 similar recesses, the central one wider, with a pattern of vents in gable above. The former shippon (lower storey, right) has boarded doors in 2 doorways, a boarded window opening and 5 ornamental I-shaped vents. A plain projecting band is at 1st floor level, with 2 loading doors and 4 oblong pitch-holes (all boarded), 4 diamond-shaped and 8 loophole vents and brick landing-platforms (as if for a former pigeon-loft) at right end. The Interior has queen-strut trusses of softwood.

Listing NGR: SJ4857755112