Barn And Shippon On East Side Of Road, Opposite Roscoe Lowe Farmhouse

This building is a barn and shippon located on the east side of the road, opposite Roscoe Lowe Farmhouse. The barn is dated 1588, as indicated below the eaves on the north side, and has been altered. It is attached to a shippon or stable that is dated 1683, found at the first floor of the west side. The structure is made of squared sandstone with quoins and features slate roofs, with some sections covered in stone slate. The barn is oriented gable to the road, while the shippon is attached at a right angle to the far end of the south side.

The barn has six bays and includes various slit breathers at the upper level of the north side and in the west gable, which has been rebuilt after a collapse. There are opposed wagon doorways located at the third bay from the west end; the doorway on the south side is flanked by later lean-to additions. To the right of the wagon door on the north side, there is a chamfered Tudor-arched doorway that is now blocked. Above the lintel of this doorway is a small square opening with three recesses, and under the eaves at the east end is a rectangular datestone inscribed in relief with the year.

Inside, the inner side of the west jamb of the north wagon entrance features a jambstone that is crudely incised with a "Celtic head." At the west end of the barn, there are three original collar trusses with curved windbracing supporting overlapped purlins. The attached shippon consists of two bays, with the second bay set back. It has a doorway to the first bay, and at the ground floor of the second bay, there is an exceptionally large rectangular lintel backed internally by a cambered beam, with a small window beneath it. Above this is a square opening leading to the loft, and to the right of this opening is a datestone inscribed in relief with the initials F (= Foster, Robert and Margaret) and the date 1683. It is said that this shippon was used as a workshop by Samuel Oldknow of Roscoe Lowe Farmhouse.