Agricultural shelter and stable

Agricultural shelter and stable, mid-late-C19.

MATERIALS: hand-made red brick with a graduated stone slate roof.

EXTERIOR: not inspected, information from other sources. Situated to the east of a linear drain within the former Croston Moss, it is a small, rectangular single-storey, building beneath a pitched roof of stone slate. It has a brick-built chimneystack to the left gable, a single entrance in the end of the south elevation with a stone step, and a square, centrally placed opening near the eaves in the north elevation. Other walls are blind. The drained moss has shrunk over the last century or more revealing the once buried lower parts of the building including its arched foundations to the west gable provided to strengthen the structure.

INTERIOR: not inspected, information from other sources. Set against the west gable there is a red-brick hearth with a stone lintel and a tapering, full-height brick-built flue. A pair of timber stall partitions divide the space in front of the chimney into three stalls, one in front and one to either side. That to the right has mostly lost its boarded uprights, and the central stall has a timber manger fixed against the hearth. The simple roof structure has single purlins and a narrow ridge piece.