Barn and attached outbuildings approximately 15 metres south-west of Elmwood House

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WALTON OAKENSHAW LANE (west side) Barn and attached outbuildings approximately 15m south-west of Elmwood House

GV II

Barn incorporating dovecote with stables attached to both ends. Late C18. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. Two storeys. Seven-bay barn with three-bay stable to left and four-bay stable to right. Quoins. Barn stands forward from stables and has tall segmental-arched cart entry with window with plain stone surrounds above; similar but larger windows to either side. To right end doorway with large tie-stone jambs leads to dovecote. Stable blocks to either side have doorways set one above the other with flight of stone steps leading to haylofts. Square windows to either side. Lean-to attached to right-hand return has three doorways to former calving pens. Hipped roofs to each end of stable blocks.

Interior: barn: queen-post roof with wide-spanning tie-beam. Dovecote has brick nesting boxes. Stables: that to right has original iron stables for four horses. Fish-bone king-post roofs.

Listing NGR: SE3509617459