Pair Of Hop Kilns, Adjoining Hop Rooms And Attached Range Consisting Of Hop Room, Cow Shelter, Cart Shed And Barn About 30 Yards North Of Brook Farmhouse

LITTLE MARCLE CP - SO 63 NE

5/18 Pair of hop kilns, adjoining hop rooms and attached range con- sisting of hop room, cow shelter, cart shed and barn about 30 yards north of Brook Farmhouse

GV II

Two hop kilns, hop rooms, cow shelter and barn forming the north side of farmstead complex. Hop kilns probably early C19, attached range c1866 and hop rooms to north of hop kilns late C19. Hop kilns (at the south end of a long rectangular range): sandstone rubble with brick dressings to window surrounds and eaves, conical roofs with asphalt covering and vanes; circular plan; south elevation: each has a pair of small symmetrically placed one-light windows just above ground level and another pair immediately below the eaves, between the two hop kilns is the brick gable end of the c1866 hop room with a 9-pane glazing bar fixed light under an elliptical head. Hop room, cow shelter, cart shed and barn to north of hop kilns form a continuous range to the north: sandstone rubble, brick dressings, tiled roofs; main east elevation to farmyard and road has tallet stairs, to right of junction with hop kilns, leading up to hop room; brick lean-to cow shelter, roughly central in the form of a cloister with eight brick 4-centred arches supported on brick piers, along the back wall of which at the foot of the cart shed is a continuous trough and rack; to the right of the arches is a low two-leaved door under a segmental head leading into the threshing floor of the six-bay barn. Rear elevation to west: segmental heads, to the right are three casements, each with sixteen panes, to hop drying floor above cart shed entries which consist of five brick arches supported on piers, the left one with ledged doors; the right partly obscured by late C19 brick hop rooms (adjoining the north hop kiln) which have louvred ventilators on the slate roof; to the right of full height doors to the threshing floor is a large brick ventilation panel about 10 feet high, to its left are two openings; the north gable end has double leaved cart doors into the barn with a central loft door above. Interior: the barn has a tallet at the north end and its trusses are collars supported by queen posts bolted to the ties with angle struts from queen posts to principals. Part of a model farmstead complex, adjoining Brook farmhouse (qv), reputedly built by the Eastnor Estate. Included for group value as a complete example.

Listing NGR: SO6714036817