Pair Of Field Barns With Field Boundary Wall At Upper Hazlewood Farm

A pair of field barns with a field boundary wall, dating from the mid-19th century, are situated at Upper Hazlewood Farm. The barns and boundary wall demonstrate decorative detailing found elsewhere on the Hazlewood Estate. The barns are gabled and run parallel, with the larger barn positioned to the south and the smaller to the north. A corrugated asbestos infill unit connecting the two barns is not considered of special interest, though the linking wall is included in the listing.

The larger barn is constructed of rubble, with a rendered west end, and has a bituminised slate roof. It features a small square opening below a broad, flat string course at a low level, and three rows of brick pigeon openings in the coped east gable. A large lean-to is attached to the left, featuring two plank loading doors, boarded infill, and two recesses with rough ogee tops. The far gable is also coped, with a rendered section incorporating doors with a cambered head, and further rubble to an added lean-to section. Steps lead down to an enclosed yard. Inside, the barn has vents in the long walls and a five-bay king-post roof, with a good beamed floor.

The smaller barn has a bull’s eye brick feature over two recesses with rough ogee heads, a broad string course, and two similar recesses below. Broad, low openings lead to a covered yard. The west gable, set to ground slope, has a wide doorway with stone voussoirs, a straight extrados, and a drip. Both barns have projecting eaves courses.

At the western end, the barns are linked by a wall incorporating one large, pyramidal-roofed niche and five smaller recesses with rough ogee heads. The interior of this linking section features a 6½-bay collar roof. The south wall of the smaller barn has four recesses—likely former loading or window openings—with wood lintels, and a single opening to the north.

A boundary wall runs along the south side of the larger barn to a wide gateway, then continues for approximately 25 metres to a return boundary. This wall, about 1.5 metres high, has a series of recesses with rough ogee heads, sheltered by roughly stone on edge coping. The recesses are roughly 400mm wide, with intermediate buttresses of similar width, and three higher, larger piers feature deeply recessed pyramidal cappings (which were considerably weathered during a survey in September 1988). The wall continues to a gateway at the road end. The site represents a relatively unaltered survival and showcases the Hazlewood Estate’s design philosophy extended to its farm buildings.