Barn And Attached Engine House Approximately 30 Yards North Of Preston Vale Farmhouse

SJ 91 SW 6/88

PENKRIDGE C.P. PRESTON VALE LANE Barn and attached engine house approximately 30 yards north of Preston Vale Farmhouse

GV II

Barn and engine house. Late C18 barn with mid-C19 engine house and later alterations. Red brick; slate and plain tile roofs. Aligned east-west with barn to the west and engine house to the east. Barn to the left, engine house to the right. Barn: Formerly one storey, now one and two storeys with dentilled eaves; 5 bays, inserted C20 casements to the central and right hand bays and small mid-C19 latticed casement to first floor right; blocked threshing floor doors to left of centre and right of centre with segmental heads, the former has an inserted cart entry, the latter an inserted doorway, both with segmental heads, roughly central inserted doorway with segmental head; bays to left, right and centre each have 5 tiers of air vents. Engine house: Left hand bay of one storey and gable-lit loft, right hand bay of one storey; the left hand bay is obscured by a later attached cowhouse except for a segmental-headed door to the left; the right hand bay has a door to the left and a window to the right with latticed panes, both have segmental heads, square factory-type chimney stack to the rear. Included as an example illustrating the adaption of an C18 barn for the use of steam power in the C19. J.E.C. Peters: The Development of Farm Buildings in Western Lowland Staffordshire up to 1880 (1969) Manchester University Press PP. 90, 256; Plate 7a.

Listing NGR: SJ9010514617