Barn And Adjoining Buildings

Barn with adjoining former stabling, coachman's cottage (possibly a former horse engine house at the rear), and coach house. This group of buildings dates from approximately the late 18th century, with parts remodelled in the 19th century.

The barn, the central feature of the group, is constructed of killas rubble with granite dressings to its front. The adjoining buildings are part of an overall rectangular range, with a two-storey cottage projecting from the lower end at the rear right. The roofs are hipped and covered in Delabole dry slate and grouted scantle slate. The brick arches and chimneys are rendered in brick, particularly notable to the cottage.

The barn is designed in the Palladian style and presents a two-storey north front with a symmetrical arrangement of 1:3:1 bays. The barn section projects forward from the adjoining buildings. The middle three bays of the barn are surmounted by a pediment, broken forward, with a plinth, mid-floor platband, and moulded eaves and pediment cornice. The ground floor or basement contains a central doorway with a ledged door under a wooden lintel, flanked by segmental brick arched window openings with circa late 19th-century six-pane windows. The first floor has openings set within large tall rectangular recesses. The middle section features a wide central loading doorway with a projecting keystone and a pair of ledged doors with a blind fanlight over. The flanking window openings have apron-like hoods and possibly original twelve-pane hornless sashes with upper sashes serving as fanlights. Bays one and four have shallow brick arches with moulded pediments on corbels over window openings, with possibly original twenty-four-pane sashes. The pediment contains a blind brick arched lunette in the tympanum. The rear of the barn has three tiers of pigeon holes.

The stabling to the left has doorways midway between the ground floor window openings. The left-hand door is now a window, and the right-hand doorway has a three-pane overlight with the door boarded over. The first floor was partly rebuilt in the late 19th century and features rafter ends under eaves and gables over dormered windows with exposed purlins. All windows to the stabling are circa late 19th-century horned twenty-four-pane sashes.

The coach house, dating from approximately the early to mid-19th century, has three wide segmental brick arched coach openings to the ground floor. The first floor has original sixteen-pane two-light casements positioned midway between the ground floor arches, also under brick arches of the same radius. The left-hand coach opening serves as a courtyard entrance.

The cottage to the rear of the barn dates from approximately the early 19th century and was extended to the left (west) and remodelled in the late 19th century. The rubble walls have granite quoins to the later left section. Window and door openings are topped with segmental brick arches. The original part has a hipped roof of grouted scantle slate, while the left extension has a narrower parallel hipped roof of dry Delabole slate. The cottage plan comprises a larger left-hand (west) room and a smaller room in the original part (right), with an entrance and stair positioned between them. The nearly symmetrical two-window south front features a ledged door positioned off centre to the right and circa late 19th-century two-light casements.

Partial inspection of the barn's interior revealed original oak or elm roof structure with two tiers of morticed and pegged collars to the principal trusses. Other interiors were not inspected.

The barn is a particularly fine building with strong architectural elements and detail, forming the central feature of this distinguished group.