Lea Manor Farm, Farm Building Immediately South West Of Farmhouse

SJ 45 NW ALDFORD C.P. LEA LANE 6/18 Lea Manor Farm, Farm- building immediately South West of Farmhouse

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Shippon, early C19 (on Tithe Map for Aldford, 1837). Brown brick in English garden wall bond, with gabled roof of grey slate. Two storeys, almost symmetrical, a model building of its period. Central basket-arched drifthouse with cowsheds left and right; haylofts above, each giving onto the drifthouse through two superimposed round-arched loading openings (to facilitate loading, however full the lofts). To each side of the drifthouse in east wall of the haylofts is a pigeon loft with 6 tiers of 5 nesting-boxes and projecting brick landing-platforms. Beyond the pigeon-lofts loading doors alternate with ventilation panels of honeycomb brickwork, all in basket-arched openings. Mid C20 metal windows under concrete lintels in lower storey; two basket-arched doorways with boarded, ventilated doors. Ventilators in the west wall of the haylofts are in the form of triple-barred crosses.

Listing NGR: SJ4342157888