Barn With Attached Horse Engine House And Stable Approximately 10 Metres To North East Of Alderton Farmhouse (That Part In Myddle Civil Parish)

SJ 42 SE MYDDLE C.P. ALDERTON

7/2 Barn with attached - horse engine house and stable approx. 10 metres to north- east of Alderton Farmhouse (that part in Myddle C.P.)

GV II

Barn with attached horse engine house and stables. Late C18 or early C19. Timber framed barn with red brick nogging on high dressed red sandstone base; slate roof. Framing: studs with light rails and long straight tension braces. 3 bays. West front: honeycomb brick vents in first floor to right and inserted window in centre; vertical ground- floor vents, boarded stable-type door off-centre to right, and central pair of sliding boarded doors. Large C20 farmbuilding partly obscuring barn to left. Stable adjoining to right: red brick with dressed red sandstone plinth, dentil brick eaves cornice and slate and corrugated- iron roof; granary above with boarded loft door to left and stable below with pair of segmental-headed wooden windows flanking central segmental-headed boarded stable-type door. Right-hand return front with flight of external red sandstone steps up to segmental-headed loft doorway. Polygonal horse engine house projecting at rear of barn with dressed red sandstone piers and hipped graded slate roof (partly replaced with corrugated iron). Interior of barn: stone cross walls; lofts in end bays. Horse engine house with sawn king post truss. The horse engine house is possibly a latter addition as it is shown in dotted outline only on the 1839 tithe map. Shropshire Records Office, No. 4684/Ti/2. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ4955624058