Threshing Barn And Adjoining Cartshed/Workshop/Stable/Granary Ranges Approximately 200 Metres South Of Elsham Hall

Threshing barn and adjoining cartshed, workshop, stable and granary ranges approximately 200 metres south of Elsham Hall.

A mid-19th-century agricultural complex built for T G Corbett, with later additions and alterations. The building is constructed in red brick laid in Flemish bond with limestone ashlar dressings. The roofs are covered with concrete pantiles on the south-east range and clay pantiles on the remainder.

The complex forms three sides of a rectangular farmyard to the rear of the main coach-house. The south-west range contains the principal barn with adjoining ranges at right angles; the north-west range houses the workshop and stables with granary; and the south-east range accommodates a cartshed with granary.

The south-west range, on its internal face, comprises a two-storey seven-bay barn flanked by two low two-storey single-bay ranges. The barn features a central ashlar basket-arched entrance with keyed chamfered rustication and an ashlar band at impost level, together with a blocked basket-arched door to the right having rusticated ashlar quoins and a keystone. Six first-floor Gothick ogee-arched carved ashlar ventilators are present. The flanking ranges have ashlar bands, a 20th-century sliding door to the left, a blocked door with casement above to the right, and stepped and cogged brick eaves cornices. On the external face, the barn displays an ashlar keystone and imposts to the central entrance, five ground-floor diamond-shaped brick breathers, a segmental-headed door and window to the right, and two square first-floor pitching hatches flanked by pairs of diamond breathers. The lower range to the right has a blocked arched entrance with ashlar key and imposts, a round-headed window with ovolo-moulded ashlar surround, a later blocked door and an inserted window. The range to the left has an entrance with board doors beneath a segmental arch, a 20th-century casement beneath a former arched entrance, and inserted windows and door.

The south-east range, on its internal face, is low with two storeys and ten bays, with a later single-bay extension to the north. Ten basket-arched cart entrances with ashlar keystones and imposts are present, of which the two southern entrances are open while the remainder feature later 19th and 20th-century blocking and inserted doors and windows. A single narrow arched entrance to the southern angle has an ashlar impost band. The first floor contains six hatches with ventilation grilles and a casement to the left extension. The stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice is present, with the roof hipped to the right. The external face shows ten cart entrances, that to the south with a pair of board doors and the remainder blocked, with five original and three inserted first-floor hatches with grilles and board doors.

The north-east range, on its internal face, is low with two storeys and thirteen bays, with a later three-bay addition and a house to the northern angle. The early section has three segmental-arched cart entrances with ashlar keystones, five segmental-arched doors (one blocked with an inserted casement), two segmental-arched windows, and three tall workshop windows with glazing bars, re-glazed in the 20th century. Nine first-floor segmental-arched openings are present, four glazed and the remainder blocked. The exterior face forms an arcaded screen wall facing the Park, comprising five bays with central and outer bays breaking forward. Eight basket-arched panels with raised ashlar keys and imposts are present, featuring single arches to the outer bays and twin arches to the central bays. Four arches have contemporary recessed blocking (one with an inserted door), three have full 20th-century glazing, and one has a large 20th-century window above blocking. First-floor hatches have 20th-century glazing. A stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice is present with a pair of axial stacks. At the time of resurvey, the north-west range was partly occupied by a tea shop.