House And Barn And Cowhouse And Craft Shop 115 Metres North Of Acton Scott

The property consists of a house, barn, cowhouse, and craft shop located 115 metres north of Acton Scott Hall. This complex, dating from around 1767, was originally two houses and has undergone 20th-century additions. The structure is built of brick with two tiers of ventilation slits, a rubble stone plinth, and ashlar quoins. It features plain-tile roofs with ashlar coped gables, some topped with pyramid finials, and has a dentil course brick eaves. There are two integral brick stacks on the front and one on the rear.

The layout is extensive and L-shaped, with the barn and house forming a two-storey range aligned east-west, while the cowhouse and craft shop are in a smaller two-storey wing aligned north-south. There are two small extensions attached to the main wing. A horse engine house was relocated to the north side in the 1980s, and a bull pen is situated on the south side.

On the exterior, the north front features a rebuilt horse engine shed with a hipped tiled roof supported by freestanding brick piers, and a plain barn door opening in the centre. The house to the right has two much-altered single casement frontages, each with plain boarded doors, and the right one has a projecting gabled canopy. The west front includes a single casement on the gable end of the house to the left, a pair of glazed roundels over boarded doors in segmental arched openings to the cowhouse in the centre, and a pair of boarded doors in a segmental arched opening to the craft shop on the right. The south gable end features a timber mullioned window with a stepped ashlar hoodmould above, and a triangular opening in the apex with louvred vent infill.

The rear side has two barn door openings, with the right one having diagonally-boarded doors, and casements with a plain boarded door to the left. The rear east side has three casements with boarded doors below and a 20th-century timber window to the left.

Inside, the barn range has a six-bay twin-purlin roof supported by king post trusses. The main building in this complex houses the Acton Scott Working Farm Museum, which was established in 1975.