Farmbuildings At Tixall Farm

TIXALL Farmbuildings at 1. 5373 Tixall Farm SJ 92 SE 19/5A II GV 2. Farm buildings, c1830. Built for the Clifford family of Tixall Hall. Red brick with ashlar and brick dressings. Slate hipped roofs. Quadrangular plan. Main street front 2 storeys and 17 bays, with slightly projecting 3 bay centre. Central segmental carriage arch with above a 3 light casement, and above again a square tower containing a pigeoncote with corner turrets with pyramidal caps. The tower has an ashlar plaque with a coat of arms, and above a round headed recessed panel with flight perches and openings. The tower is topped by a hipped slate roof and an ornate wooden cupola with weather vane. Either side are single 4 light windows, with 3 light casements above. Beyond to either side are 7, 4 light windows with 3 circular pitching eyes above. To the north-east a large hay barn, joined by a buttressed wall. The hay barn has 5 large segmental arches to either side and a single arch at either end, the whole is topped by a hipped slate roof with continuous ventilator. To the rear of the main range are 3 large cowsheds with round headed arched entrances. Adjoining this to the north-east is a large threshing barn now partially demolished, only one segmental threshing arch survives. To the north, the stable range has a 2 storey 7 bay centre, under a hipped slate roof, with a central segmental arch flanked by stables with lofts above. Either side are single storey wings, that to the left has 6 implement sheds, and that to the right further stables.

Listing NGR: SJ9841223142