The Old Barns

PARISH OF UNSTONE ASH LANE SK 37 NE 6/180 (South Side) The Old Barns (formerly listed as Cowhouse to 2.12.81 south and adjacent to Ash Lane Farmhouse and outbuilding to south-east of Ash Lane Farmhouse, south of Cowhouse) GV II House, formerly two farm outbuildings. Late C16 and late C17, converted 1984. Coursed rubble coal measures sandstone with plain dressings, quoins, Welsh slated roofs with stone slate eaves, C20 metal flues. L-plan, formerly two separate buildings now linked by C20 extension. South range. Two storeys, three bays with central doorway beneath plain timber lintel, and enlarged ventilation slits to either side of the doorway, now a glazed door. Inserted interior partitions do not obscure exposed late C17 queen strut tie beam trusses with straight windbraces to one side of each truss, which support double purlins and a ridge purlin. Inserted C20 openings to south gable end. North range runs at right angles to main range. Late C16, single storey, three bays, with two complete cruck trusses, and the remains of a third in the west gable wall. The cruck trusses stand on projecting padstones on the south side; the north side wall is built into an earth bank. The trusses have tie beams and yokes, and some windbraces. Single purlin and ridge purlin. Three doorways to south wall, with plain lintels, one now blocked. C20 link with timber arcade to front.

Listing NGR: SK3978877742