Barns And Outbuildings At Stockadon Farm

The barns and outbuildings at Stockadon Farm form a large, L-shaped group of buildings enclosing a yard. Parts of the farm complex likely pre-date 1859, with significant additions and alterations made in 1859 and 1884. The buildings are constructed of rubble with slate and some asbestos-cement slate roofing.

The main barn, a two-storey structure, features a hipped outer end with a square plank loading door under a wood lintel. Above this door are three rows of pigeon openings. Below are eight doors leading to shippons, each with segmental stone voussoir heads; plank doors with open slats to the upper half of some of these. A ninth door on the left is blocked. A central opening for access to the back of the barn is located at the upper ground level. Inside, the barn has a seven-bay, high pegged collar roof incorporating two purlins.

Adjoining this barn, with a higher ridge line, is another barn unit, dated 1859, and attributed to the builder H. Ackworthy. The inner front of this unit has a loading door with a segmental stone voussoir head, above a large 20th-century square opening and four partially blocked openings with small lights to voussoirs. There are three slits at eaves level. A return arm features a date stone and an opening similar to those on the front. A further two-storey unit, apparently built at the same time, has a lower ridge line, with three eaves ventilating slits, three windows (one blocked), and a sliding steel door. The gable end also has a sliding steel door. The outer face of the barn has one large and a smaller door, and the return to the east has hipped corners with a pair of plank doors to each unit. The barn’s interior features scissors trusses.

A linking enclosing wall, approximately 2.25 metres high, connects the barns to a compact, two-storey, U-plan second unit dated 1884. This unit has two half-hipped arms facing south, enclosing a narrow courtyard and a gabled block across the back. The stockyard side of this unit has a large plank door in the gable and a series of square openings with wood lintels at lower level. The right arm features a segmental-headed window; the left arm has a sixteen-pane sash window on each level, with one blocked; and brick segmental-headed openings to the inner faces of the arms. A concrete block pier marks the curve of the boundary wall to the right. The yard itself is paved with concrete. The farm buildings represent a good, largely complete set with minimal 20th-century alterations.