Farm Buildings At Harricroft Farm

BOLTON

SD71SW OLDHAM'S LANE 797-1/2/167 (West side (off)) 26/04/74 Farm buildings at Harricroft Farm (Formerly Listed as: OLDHAMS LANE Harricroft Farmhouse and buildings to north)

GV II

Farm buildings, comprising main barn, shippons and stables around a yard. The barn is dated 1832, the shippons and stable range may be somewhat earlier. Well-coursed and squared stone to barn, rougher rubble to shippons and stable; heavy slate roofs. EXTERIOR AND PLAN: main barn is L-plan, with 2-storey southern range, perhaps originally intended as stabling. 3 doors, 2 now windows and partially blocked, each with window alongside. Single semi-circular window towards the right, with stressed architrave with keystone. 2 bulls-eye windows at upper level, each side of date stone, with initials 'R.A.'. Ventilation slits below these upper windows. Return wing to rear has full-height segmentally arched opposing doors, with 2 windows to right, and a semi-circular window to left, with stressed architrave with keystone. Ventilation slits above. Heavy voussoirs and keystones to main entrance arches, the other openings with flat lintels. Shippons adjoin barn at right angles, and together with the stable range, enclose the yard: single storey, with central and outer doorways divided by windows, the central doorway itself now a window. Stable range at right angles substantially altered and partially rebuilt in brick. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD7020512100