Courtyard Of Farm Buildings Approximately 20 Metres East Of Rockbeare Manor

This is a model farm, likely dating to around 1820, with later 19th and 20th century alterations. It serves as the home farm for Rockbeare Manor and is part of a remarkably well-preserved group that includes the manor house itself, its stables, and coach house. The farm buildings are arranged symmetrically around a courtyard and back onto the 18th-century stables and coach house.

At the eastern end of the courtyard stands a large barn or milking parlour situated between the courtyard and the road. Low blocks containing animal stalls project forward on either side of the courtyard; the stalls on the right (south) were rebuilt in the 20th century. At the front (western) end are similar 2-story blocks, appearing as 2-room plan cottages with chimneys on the west side. The right-hand one is a dairy, and the other combines a store with living space.

The barn or milking parlour is long and relatively tall, featuring a full-height round-headed archway with limestone imposts and keystone. Apart from a small doorway at the left end, the barn is blank to the road, but two wide windows are visible from the courtyard to the right of the archway. These original windows have brick skewback arches. The first-floor windows are unglazed, while the ground-floor windows contain 20th-century glass. To the left of the archway is a plank door with a blind window above. The interior of the barn showcases an open roof space with a first-floor gallery with twisted balusters at the archway end. The roof structure comprises 19th-century king post trusses.

The original northern stalls remain, though with some remodeling. Two of the original doorways are present, while two others and their associated windows have been rearranged. The stalls opposite were entirely rebuilt in the 20th century. The dairy and cottage project into the courtyard, each possessing a two-window front with 19th-century casement windows with glazing bars. The dairy has a door with an unglazed window to the left. The cottage has a wider doorway, a glazed casement window, and a second doorway at the left end – likely the dairyman's cottage. Both have hipped roofs.

The farm buildings sit within landscaped grounds, contributing to a picturesque setting evocative of the Georgian and Regency periods and retaining a minimum of later alterations, with the manor house and associated buildings.