Group Of Farmbuildings South West Of Great Park Farmhouse

The group of farmbuildings, dating to around 1850, lies south west of Great Park Farmhouse. It comprises a linhay, a shippon with a bank barn above, a dairy, stables, and a building of unknown function, possibly an engine house. The buildings are constructed of Flemish bond brick on stone rubble footings, with slate roofs, and feature cast iron gutters, downpipes, and a water tank.

The layout is of three ranges fronting a yard. The south range is a north-facing six-bay linhay which remains open-fronted. The west range, connected at right angles, is a large bank barn situated above a shippon. A small dairy block adjoins this at an obtuse angle, alongside a stable block also set at an obtuse angle facing south-west. Attached to the stable block, at the north-east end, is a small lean-to, potentially an earlier engine house, built partly around a tall iron water tank. This tank collected water from the roofs of the barn and stable and fed a granite trough in front.

The linhay has timber, chamfered posts. The bank barn/shippon is unusual, featuring two first-floor doorways leading to the barn from the yard, rather than the typical single door. These doorways have segmental arched heads, supported by floating brick porches with cheeks carried on moulded granite corbels and shallow lean-to roofs also on shaped granite corbels. The ground floor has eight doorways, some now blocked, with segmental arched heads bearing brick voussoirs. A rear doorway, with brick cheeks, provides access to a farm track. The dairy block is single-bayed, with a large segmental arched doorway and a loft window. The stable block is four bays, with a doorway flanked by windows, and a loft doorway above the ground floor door, again flanked by windows; a second loft door is positioned to the right. The lean-to abuts a stone yard wall and has a roof of thick slate. Its door has an iron frame and iron middle rail, with the lower part infilled with boards.

Internally, all buildings have roofs supported by early 19th-century king post and strut trusses, some of which are missing. The lean-to contains a granite platform with remnants of iron fixings. The buildings demonstrate group value with the farmhouse and an earlier farmbuilding to the east, and represent an interesting example of a planned estate farmyard.