Range Of Farmbuildings Approximately 30 Metres To North Of Holdridge Farmhouse

NORTH MOLTON HOLDRIDGE LANE SS 72 NW & SS 7229-7329 13 & 18/161 Range of farmbuildings - approximately 30 metres to north of Holdridge Farmhouse GV II Range of farmbuildings, including barn with horse-engine house, cartshed and ranges of shippons. Early to mid C19. Uncoursed stone rubble with tooled ashlar dressings, and some red brick dressings (possibly later alterations). Welsh-slate roof, half hipped to barn and hipped over horse-engine house and flanking wings. Plan: U-plan range. Central threshing barn over 5-bay bay cartshed, facing south, with octagonal horse-engine house to rear of left-hand end of barn. Lower flanking ranges of farmbuildings, returning to front at each end, mainly shippons but with former cartshed in end of left-hand wing. The range of buildings encloses the north side of the large farmyard, which is bounded on the south side by Holdridge Farmhouse and adjoining farmbuildings (q.v.). Two-storey barn over cartshed with engine house on back to rear, and lower 2-storey flanking ranges. Exterior: Barn has central first-floor large double boarded doors with segmental head and flanking small segmental-headed openings with boarded doors. Ground floor cartshed with arcade of segmental-headed arched openings divided by square brick piers. Flanking ranges with boarded loft doorway, and narrow louvred loft windows, and ground-floor C19 windows, and boarded doorways, all with stone segmental-arched heads (some rebuilt in red brick). End of left-hand wing is former coach house and has large-boarded double doors. One-storey lean-to sheds at the end of each wing. Horse-engine house to rear of barn with formerly open canted corners (blocked by C20 concrete blockwork and doorways in sides, that to east with 6-pane rectangular rear light and that to west blocked. Buttress to front wall. Interior: 5-bay roof to barn with king-post trusses. Some line shafting in barn. Horse-engine house with massive oak cross beam and 2 large beams spanning from cross beam to rear of barn. King-post truss. No former horse-engine machinery noted at time of survey (August 1987).

Listing NGR: SS7386728993