Barn With Attached Horse Engine House And Cider House Circa 3 Metres West Of Higher Hacknell Farmhouse

This building is a barn with an attached horse-engine house and cider house, located about 3 metres west of Higher Hacknell Farmhouse. The barn dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century, while the horse-engine house and cider house were built in the 19th century. The barn is constructed of stone rubble and cob, and the horse-engine house and cider house are also made of stone rubble. The roofs are made of corrugated asbestos, with the barn having a half-hipped roof, the horse-engine house featuring a polygonal roof, and the cider house having gable ends.

The barn consists of six bays and is symmetrical, with central opposing cart entrances. The polygonal horse-engine house is attached to the rear left side of the barn, and there is a lean-to on the rear right side. The cider house extends to the right of the barn. The barn features roughly chamfered jambs at the rear cart entrance, which dates to the late 17th or early 18th century, and has old plank doors. There is a stone rubble porch at the front entrance with a corrugated iron pent roof. The left side of the porch has a rebuilt front wall covered in 20th-century weatherboarding. Inside, there is a timber threshing floor still in place, supported by five original pegged trusses with straight principals and lapped pegged collars. The horse-engine house contains a massive horizontal winding beam. The cider house, which faces into the yard, has three bays, featuring a cider press with a metal thread in the center bay and apple storage racks in the left-hand bay adjacent to the barn. The right end has an open-fronted bay.