Farmbuilding About 20M West Of Foxhole Farmhouse

This farmbuilding, located about 20 meters west of Foxhole Farmhouse, was likely built in the 18th century and has some modifications from the 19th century. It is constructed from stone rubble and cob, topped with a gabled corrugated iron roof. The north end of the building was probably a large ash-house, featuring a corbelled roof and two ovens that shared a chimney. One of the ovens is lined with brick and may have been added or modified in the 19th century. In the early 20th century, the chimney stack was removed when the building was converted into a cartshed.

The building is single-storey with two large rough openings on the east side, likely from the early 20th century. A doorway on the north gable end provides access to the ash-house. Inside, a stone rubble wall divides the ash- and bake-house from the rest of the structure. There is a blocked opening with a timber lintel in this wall that once led to the ash-house, and a wider lower opening under a timber lintel that provides access to the bake ovens. The two bake ovens sit on a raised stone rubble base; one features a triangular-headed freestone opening and a neatly corbelled stone internal structure with a granite course at the base, while the second oven is brick-lined. A doorway with a timber lintel connects the bake-house to the large ash-house, which has a finely constructed corbelled conical stone roof with a small circular hole at the apex. Ashes from the bake-house were likely stored in the ash-house before being taken to the fields through the door in the north gable end. This building is a rare example of a combined bake- and ash-house, with particularly fine internal construction in the ash-house.