Barn And Former Farmhouse Circa 50 Metres East Of New Barn Farmhouse

SD 83 SW HAPTON (off) BILLINGTON ROAD

4/10 Barn and former farmhouse c.50 metres east of New Barn Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse with attached barn, c.1700, the house now used as a store. Coursed sandstone rubble with some quoins, stone slate roof with a ridge chimney to the house. Unusual T-shaped plan, the barn forming a large west crosswing embracing the west gable of the south-facing house. Three-bay 2-storey house (3rd bay with front extension C18) has recessed-moulded mullion windows of 4 and 5 lights, the 1st lacking one million and the 2nd altered to make a doorway in the 3rd to 5th lights, and at 1st floor two 2-light windows (now crossed by a tin roof bridged between the barn and the extension); the interior has boxed and chamfered beams, and 2 C18 fireplaces. Six-bay H-plan barn facing west has set-back wagon entrance to 3rd bay, continuous front outshuts to the 1st and 2nd, and 4th to 6th bays, these later extended forwards and the roof carried down over them, and a similar rear outshut to the 1st and 2nd bays. North gable wall has 3 windows possibly originally doors. Interior: massive stone piers making bays to the original western outshuts; 5 kingpost roof trusses with angle struts, 4 pairs of purlins.

Listing NGR: SD8104830397