Outbuildings About 10 Metres South Of Oak

WHITSTONE WHITSTONE HEAD SX 29 NE 7/94 Outbuildings about 10 metres south of Oak GV II

Outbuildings including barn with linhay over, 2 cartsheds. Stables with accommodation above, large barn, bank barn, calf house. Late C19, incorporating early C19 bank barn. Built for Squire Edward Mucklow and said to have been stud farm. Barn brick, other late C19 buildings slatestone rubble with brick dressings and slate roofs, bank barn partly cob. Outbuildings arranged round 2 adjoining courtyards. Lower yard cobbled and entered through gateway in wall at north corner. 2 storey barn, hipped at right end forms north west facing range, large openings to linhay above. Adjoining south-east facing range comprises open-fronted cartshed with cast iron column support and possibly tack room with canted staggered corner. North-west facing range comprises stable block and circa early C19 bank barn with loft above, first floor slate canopy carried on brackets. South west facing range known as calf house. Slatestone rubble wall with rounded north corner and gateway with piers of square section completes courtyard. Higher courtyard comprises rear of stable and bank barn range, north-west facing brick field barn, and second open-fronted cartshed with cast iron column support. Wall to south-west completes higher yard with similar gate piers to lower yard. Each yard has wrought iron gates with ornamental finials above the top and middle rails. The late C19 buildings are typical and the best of Squire Mucklow's numerous farmbuildings in Whitstone parish, which use canted or rounded corners to eliminate damage from wheeled vehicles, Mucklow is said to have bred carthorses as part of his estate improvements, which included land drainage schemes. These outbuildings possibly carthorse stud Farm.

Listing NGR: SX2644298510