Range Of Farmbuildings Approximately 30 Metres To North Of Holdridge Farmhouse

A range of farmbuildings, dating from the early to mid-19th century, stands approximately 30 metres north of Holdridge Farmhouse. The buildings are constructed of uncoursed stone rubble with tooled ashlar dressings, and some later red brick dressings. The roof is covered with Welsh slate, half-hipped to the barn and hipped over the horse-engine house and flanking wings. The layout follows a U-plan, with a central threshing barn over a 5-bay cartshed facing south, and an octagonal horse-engine house located to the rear of the left-hand end of the barn. Lower flanking ranges of farmbuildings return to the front at each end, largely shippons with a former cartshed in the left-hand wing, enclosing the north side of the farmyard which is bounded to the south by Holdridge Farmhouse and other farmbuildings.

The two-storey barn has large, double-boarded doors at its centre on the first floor, with a segmental head, and smaller segmental-headed openings with boarded doors flanking them. The ground-floor cartshed features an arcade of segmental-headed arched openings separated by square brick piers. The flanking ranges are two storeys tall, with a boarded loft doorway, narrow louvred loft windows, and ground-floor 19th-century windows, all within stone segmental-arched heads (some rebuilt in red brick). The left-hand wing formerly served as a coach house and has large, double boarded doors. One-storey lean-to sheds are attached at the end of each wing.

The horse-engine house is positioned to the rear of the barn and originally had open canted corners, now largely blocked with 20th-century concrete blockwork and doorways. An east-facing doorway features a six-pane rectangular window. The front wall has a buttress. Inside the barn, the roof features king-post trusses. Some line shafting remains. The horse-engine house contains a massive oak cross beam and two large beams spanning to the rear of the barn, along with a king-post truss. No former horse-engine machinery was present during a survey in August 1987.