Barn And Attached Stable And Cattleshed At Brickhouse Farm 25 Metres North East Of House

TL 41 SW HUNSDON EASTWICK ROAD (east side) 2/15 Barn and attached stable - and cattleshed at Brickhouse Farm 25 metres NE of house

GV II

Barn, stable and cattleshed. Mid C19. Unusually large model farm group of barn, lying E-W, with lower stable and cattleshed ranges extending to S, enclosing a yard into which they face. 19-bay, timberframed, weatherboarded, triple barn on low red brick walls in Flemish bond. 3 gabled porches on S side with corresponding double doors on N side (originally sliding doors of which head tracks remain). Gabled roof now covered in corrugated asbestos. Queen post roof structure with curved braces to tie beams. Red brick lower ranges with slate roofs. Long cattleshed at E has wooden arcade to open front with a curved beam in each bay supporting the front wall plate at mid-span. Yard frontage of stable range N of central opening is weatherboarded with stable doors. S of central opening now converted to garage and store. There were orignally 2 more ranges extending S from the barn enclosing 3 smaller yards. These were demolished in mid C20 when large span concrete framed farm buildings were erected in yard which are not of special interest. An historic group of model farm buildings illustrating the 'high farming' economy of this area in the mid Cl9 of special interest. The great triple barn is unique in this area. Part of an architectural group with the C17 farmhouse.

Listing NGR: TL4215411830