Barn And Cowhouse On North East Side Of Farmyard At Middle Hampt

Barn and cowhouse, dated 1852 with later alterations. The structure is built of roughly coursed slate-stone rubble with granite quoins, and has slate roofs, with a hipped end to the lower range. It is two-story. The main range has four plank doors on the ground floor; two to the left with wood lintels, and two to the right with semicircular headed granite lintels. A small window is set between the two leftmost doorways. External lateral steps lead to a first-floor doorway on the far left. Large doorways with hipped slate hoods are positioned to the left and right of centre, featuring a date stone inscribed “WHN/1852” between them. A 2-light window with a segmental wood lintel is to the right of the left door, and ledges and pigeon nesting holes sit directly below the eaves to the right. Two single-story, rubblestone gabled ranges project at right-angles to the rear. The lower range, set back to the right, has an elliptical-arched doorway with granite voussoirs and a plank door on the far left, and a segmental-headed plank door with wedged voussoirs and a projecting keystone in the centre. Windows with granite lintels flank the central doorway; one with lateral external steps to the left leading to a first-floor plank door. Another plank door is directly above the centre doorway. The main range's interior features a continuous loft supported on chamfered cross beams, and a collar and tie-beam roof in three bays at the left end. The lower range has a collar-truss roof in five bays with half-bays at each end, where the collars were likely reused and may have been from jointed cruck blades. The building is included for group value.