Stables, Cow House, Loose Box, And Former Fodder Room And Farmworker'S Accommodation

SJ 50 NW; 5/47

ATCHAM C.P., CRONKHILL

Stables, cow house, loose box, and former fodder room and farmworkers' accommodation

GV

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Stables, cow house, loose box and former fodder room and farmworkers' accommodation, the latter two now store. Early and mid-C19. Red brick (monk bond) with stone hinge blocks, slate and corrugated iron roofs. L-plan. One storey and two storeys. Dentil brick eaves cornice to later 2-storey block. Former stable block to north: 2-light wooden loft windows to right; 4 ground-floor segmental-headed slatted wooden windows and two two-leaf segmental-headed boarded doors. Flight of 9 stone tallet steps up to segmental-headed boarded loft door in right-hand gable end; blocked circular pitching eye in left-hand gable end. Segmental-headed cart entrance at rear with pair of large boarded doors. Cow house and loose box to south: 2 segmental-headed slatted wooden windows alternating with 2 segmental-headed slatted boarded doors; segmental-headed slatted wooden casement in left-hand gable end. Former store and farmworkers' accommodation to south-east: 2 boarded doors to south, that to right with segmental head. Ridge stack off-centre to right. Interior not inspected, but said to contain many early and mid-C19 fixtures and fittings, including stalls, mangers and feeding troughs, and tie rings. These buildings form part of a complete early and mid-C19 model farm complex. National Trust, Attingham Park Estate Vernacular Building Survey.

Listing NGR: SJ5353308246