Barn And Adjoining Farmbuilding Approximately 5 Metres To West Of West Park Farmhouse

NORTH MOLTON SS 7229-7329 18/126 Barn and adjoining farmbuilding - approximately 5 metres to west of West Park Farmhouse GV II Barn and adjoining farmbuildings. Mid to late C19 with addition of c.1900. Uncoursed stone rubble with gable-ended Welsh-slate roof, hipped over corner. Circa 1900 addition with red-brick dressings. Plan: L-plan, consisting of range of shippons facing farmyard to south with barn returning at right angles to rear of left-hand end. Circa 1900 stable with loft above adjoining right-hand end. Two-storey shippon range. Exterior: Left-hand range has loft openings with wooden lintels and ground-floor windows and boarded doors with segmental stone-arched heads. Large boarded doors off-centre to left. Two blocked doorways. Later addition to right has central gabled semi dormer with boarded loft door and ground-floor 2-light window and 2 boarded doors, all with segmental brick-arched heads. Barn has cart entrance to west with pair of sliding boarded doors, dressed-stone flat-arched head and shallow porch with flanking projecting walls and eaves extended over. Boarded door to right with stone flat-arched head. Small windows in apices of gable ends. Boarded door to rear, opposite cart entrance. Former waterwheel pit at rear of right-hand end of barn, with lean-to wheel house (wheel removed). Interior of barn: six-bay C19 roof with bolted king-post trusses and pairs of purlins. Some machinery formerly associated with waterwheel still remains, including line shafting and belts. This is one of a small group of barns in the area which formerly had water-driven threshing machinery (c.f. Flitton Barton).

Listing NGR: SS7243429875