Barn And Cowhouse Approximately 25 Metres To North Of Cartshed At Campsmount Home Farm

NORTON CAMPSMOUNT PARK SE 51 SW 3/75 Barn and cowhouse approximately 25 metres to north of cartshed at Campsmount Home Farm GV II Barn and cowhouse. Late C18, altered C20. By John Carr (Connor) for the Campsmount estate. Harled rubble, sheet asbestos roof. 3-storey, 5-bay barn with 2-storey, 5-bay cowhouse, in wing to front left (south side). Barn: square-headed, wooden double doors inserted beneath altered segmental arch; cruciform vents; bays on right have projecting sills to blind windows also with cruciform vents beneath flat arches. 1st and 2nd floors: blind windows with slit vents within and between. Eaves band to hipped roof. Cowhouse: altered front end with eaves band to hipped roof; right return has central door with overlight and flat arch flanked by cruciform vents and casements with projecting sills and flat arches, 1st-floor windows as below with slit vents between. Left return has 5 Diocletian-style, 1st-floor windows, only bays 1 and 5 retaining both mullions, door inserted through bay-2 window. Attached C20 farmbuildings not of special interest. Major element of Home Farm group relating to Campsmount (demolished 1959) home of the Yarborough and Cooke-Yarborough families. Formed part of a larger range of which drawings survive in the Yarborough papers (reproduced by Connor).

Timothy Connor, 'The Building of Campsmount', Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, vol 47, 1975, pp121-132.

Listing NGR: SE5365214182