Barn And Horse Engine House At Approximately 100 Metres West Of Kennal Farmhouse

SW 73 NW STITHIANS KENNAL VALE

2/257 Barn and horse-engine house at - approximately 100 metres west of Kennal Farmhouse.

GV II

Barn and horse-engine house. Circa mid C19. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Grouted scantle slate hipped roofs. Cast-iron ogee gutters. Plan: L-shaped plan barn with short arm of the L projecting at right angles in front of the right-hand side and a canted horse-engine house projecting behind the middle of the long arm of the L. Right-hand part of barn is built into a bank on the right. There are 2 pairs of opposing loading/winnowing doorways in the longer part of the barn, a flight of stone steps behind the right-hand doorways and another flight of stone steps behind the far right-hand side to give access to another loading doorway. The ground floor has waggon sheds under the threshing floors and there are stables or loose boxes and possibly originally a shippon in the right-hand part. First floor is a granary and fodder store. Horse-engine house has opposing doorways at the sides and slit windows in the sides of the canted end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Unaltered elevations with original door and window openings. Many of the openings have their original ledged doors and there are barred windows with internal shutters. There is one 15-pane 2-light casement. Symmetrical 4 window east front has 5 doorways to the ground floor including wide waggon doorway with loading doorways over, towards left and right. Left-hand waggon doorway is partly blocked. Interior: Not inspected, except for horse-engine house which has no machinery but original roof structure and beams for carrying former machinery.

Listing NGR: SW7438137124