Barn at Home Farm and attached wall on east

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STAINBOROUGH WENTWORTH CASTLE Barn at Home Farm and attached wall on east

(Formerly listed as part of Home Farm barn and stable block at Home Farm)

15.1.79

GV II

Barn and attached wall. Probably c1715 by Joseph Bower, estate mason, for Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. Coursed square sandstone, Welsh slate roof. Two storeys, six bays (internally), attached boilerhouse block of later date at north end, attached wall encloses yard at east side.

East side: large quoins. Waggon entrance to bay two with chamfered, quoined segmental arch. Bay on left has door beneath a double-chamfered two-light window with same above; C20 wooden steps to first floor doorway on left. To right of arch are five ground-floor openings in ashlar surrounds, four of them doorways and all blocked except that to far right. Three loft oculi and one boarded door; casement on far right. Stone gutter brackets, shaped kneelers and gable copings.

Addition on right: set at an angle and with part-blocked ground floor door to left of window; first floor doorway linked by walkway to adjacent cartshed (q.v.); hipped roof. Wall attached to front left has ashlar copings and returns to terminate in front of boilerhouse. It has rebated ashlar gate piers each with band and pyramidal cap, northern pier linked to cottage at Home Farm (q.v.).

Rear: opposed waggon entrance with similar arch, now partly obscured by raised ground. Conical brick stack with ashlar base set in angle with boilerhouse block.

Interior: re-used king-post roof taken from a timber-framed building and with double purlins and braces to the ridge.

Important element of the Home Farm group.

Its forthcoming erection is referred to in a letter to Thomas Wentworth from his gardener, John Arnold, dated 16 February 1714 (Strafford Papers, Add Mss 22239, British Library).

Listing NGR: SE3202603279