The Bytack And Attached Barn

BUCKNELL C.P. THE MYND SO 37 SE 12/39 The Bytack and attached barn 23.9.86 - II

Farmhouse and attached barn. Farmhouse. Late C16 or early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with plastered wattle and daub infill on chamfered rubblestone plinth; uncoursed limestone rubble to left gable end and to C17 addition, the whole partially clad in corrugated iron; slate roof. Original single-cell plan extended to right in late C17, at which time barn was also added. One storey and attic. Framing: only partially visible, irregular square panels. Boarded door to far right of earlier part with leaded casement immediately to left. Two C19 gabled eaves dormers with cast-iron casements. Integral red brick end stack to left. Barn. Corrugated iron-clad timber frame on rubblestone plinth, higher to right where ground drops; corrugated iron roof. Plank door to far left. Interior of house. Left ground-floor room has chamfered spine beam and plain joists with original stone plinth dividing it from right room, which also has chamfered ceiling beam and joists. Stone-flagged floor to left room, which has straight-flight staircase to rear right corner; large open fireplace with bread oven to right. First floor has single-purlin roof with central collar and tie beam truss, formerly external to right gable end of original house. Wide boarded oak floor boards with step down to right room. Barn. Framing visible; vertical posts with long straight tension braces to partitions. Single-purlin roof in 4 bays with raking struts from tie beams to principal rafters. Stone-flagged floor to 2 left bays and cobblestones to 2 right bays. In process of restoration at time of resurvey (July 1986).

Listing NGR: SO3542074813