Farmbuilding With Sipire C80 Metres North Of Bostock Hall

This is a mid-to-late 18th-century farm building located approximately 80 metres north of Bostock Hall. The building is constructed of red English garden wall bond brick, with ashlar dressings and a corrugated asbestos roof. The front elevation features a stone plinth and thirteen bays arranged symmetrically, with a slight projection to the central three bays and three-bay gabled wings projecting to the right and left. A central, slightly projecting cambered-headed doorway has a timbered gable above, which is a later 19th-century addition. Pigeon loft entrances are above the doorway on either side, each with three arched openings and a projecting gable above. A later 20th-century window of three panes is located to the left of the centre, with a circular pitch eye above having a moulded stone surround. To the right is a 20th-century opening with a cement lintel. To the left of the centre, two bays have blank ground-floor walling, with cambered-headed openings above; the right-hand opening is a pitch hole with a door, and the left-hand opening a window of three by two lights. To the right are two bays containing cambered-headed pitch holes with doors to the first floor, with stable doors to the ground floor, and a small cambered-headed window to the right of each door. The lateral three-bay wings each have a central recessed archway, with a 20th-century window inserted in the right-hand opening, flanked by windows of three by four panes. The right-hand opening of the left-hand block now contains a doorway. The first floor of each wing has a central square pitch hole with pitching eyes to either side, with moulded stone surrounds. The gables above are timber framed, a late 19th-century alteration. A louvred bellcote with a shingle roof, a louvred lower stage, and a lead finial is situated at the centre of the ridge. The ranges to either side of the three central bays appear to have originally been open at first-floor level, forming a hay barn, as is still the case at the rear.