Model Farm Buildings At Stalls Farm

HORNINGSHAM LONGLEAT PARK ST 84 SW (north side) 2/143 Model farm buildings at Stalls Farm

GV II

Part in Corsley C.P. (q.v.). Model farm buildings. 1859 by W. Wilkinson for the 4th Marquess of Bath. Dressed limestone, tiled roof, yellow brick stacks with ashlar cappings. Plan consists of five parallel ranges of covered yards and stock sheds, attached by covered way to barns, offices and sawing sheds to the north. Of the five southern ranges, the centre covered yard has higher roof with coped verges and a high moulded round-arched cart entry either end with louvred oculus above, axial square louvred vent with leaded roof. Two pairs of flanking ranges, formerly stables, piggeries, cartsheds and cowsheds, now entirely for cows, have hipped roofs, those at east end replaced 1980's by gables, chamfered segmental- headed planked doors and shuttered windows, replaced at east end by square-headed openings, open-fronted cart shed on north side also blocked. Covered way has hipped roof and round-arched openings, inside are original sliding doors to north barns and south ranges lealding to central feed passage. North ranges include 8-bay barns with segmental-headed openings and sliding doors, loophole vents; V-strut tie-beam trusses. Two storey offices and stores with 4- pane sashes and horizontal sashes; all segmental-headed openings. Two-storey sawmill of three parallel ranges has large round-arched opening to central range, segmental headed openings with pivot-hung or 2-light casements, exterior gallery on cast-iron brackets. Two yellow brick stacks with moulded cappings formerly to steam engine for threshing machine and sawmill. Interior of north range unaltered, south range altered 1980s. (Plan and isometric view in J. Bailey-Denton, The Farm Homesteads of England 1863.)

Listing NGR: ST8069043890