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

This building is a barn with an attached horse engine house and stable, located approximately 10 metres to the north-east of Alderton Farmhouse in Myddle Civil Parish. It dates from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The barn is timber framed with red brick nogging set on a high dressed red sandstone base, topped with a slate roof. The framing includes studs with light rails and long straight tension braces, and it consists of three bays.

On the west front, there are honeycomb brick vents in the first floor to the right and an inserted window in the centre. The ground floor features vertical vents, an off-centre boarded stable-type door to the right, and a central pair of sliding boarded doors. A large 20th-century farm building partially obscures the barn to the left.

The stable adjoining to the right is constructed of red brick with a dressed red sandstone plinth, featuring a dentil brick eaves cornice and a roof made of slate and corrugated iron. Above the stable is a granary with a boarded loft door to the left, and below are two segmental-headed wooden windows flanking a central segmental-headed boarded stable-type door. The right-hand return front has a flight of external red sandstone steps leading up to a segmental-headed loft doorway.

At the rear of the barn is a polygonal horse engine house, which has dressed red sandstone piers and a hipped graded slate roof, although part of it has been replaced with corrugated iron. Inside the barn, there are stone cross walls and lofts in the end bays. The horse engine house features a sawn king post truss and may be a later addition, as it is shown only in dotted outline on the 1839 tithe map. This building is included for its group value.