Outbuildings About 10 Metres South Of Oak

The outbuildings located about 10 metres south of Oak include a barn with a linhay above, two cartsheds, stables with accommodation above, a large barn, a bank barn, and a calf house. These structures date from the late 19th century and incorporate an early 19th-century bank barn. They were built for Squire Edward Mucklow and are said to have been part of a stud farm. The barn is made of brick, while the other late 19th-century buildings are constructed from slatestone rubble with brick dressings and slate roofs, with the bank barn partly built of cob.

The outbuildings are arranged around two adjoining courtyards. The lower yard is cobbled and accessed through a gateway in the wall at the north corner. The two-storey barn, which has a hipped right end, forms the north-west facing range and features large openings to the linhay above. The adjoining south-east facing range includes an open-fronted cartshed supported by a cast iron column and possibly a tack room with a canted staggered corner. The north-west facing range consists of a stable block and the early 19th-century bank barn with a loft above, which has a first-floor slate canopy supported on brackets. The south-west facing range is known as the calf house.

A slatestone rubble wall with a rounded north corner and a gateway with square-section piers completes the courtyard. The higher courtyard features the rear of the stable and bank barn range, a north-west facing brick field barn, and a second open-fronted cartshed with a cast iron column support. A wall to the south-west completes the higher yard, which has similar gate piers to the lower yard. Each yard is equipped with wrought iron gates that have ornamental finials above the top and middle rails. The late 19th-century buildings are representative of Squire Mucklow's numerous farm buildings in Whitstone parish, designed with canted or rounded corners to prevent damage from wheeled vehicles. Mucklow is said to have bred carthorses as part of his estate improvements, which included land drainage schemes, suggesting that these outbuildings may have served as a carthorse stud farm.