Barn And Cowhouse, Banks Fee Farm

LONGBOROUGH SP 12 NE 3/125 Barn and Cowhouse, Banks Fee Farm GV II Barn and cowhouse. Late C18 - early C19. Coursed squared and dressed limestone, thin stone slate roof to cowhouse, concrete tile roof to barn. Rectangular barn with central projecting porch with cowhouse running back from left gable end. Projecting gabled porch to barn with plank door within double width segmental-headed opening, similar double width opening opposite. Slit vents with trefoil tops. Flat gable-end coping. Single storey cowhouse at rear with stone steps up to pigeon loft in gable end. Eleven original plank doors with strap hinges facing yard. Barn interior; 3 bays with possibly original queen post roof. Brick lined walls. Two niches in porch wall. Flag threshing floor. Cowhouse interior; 11 two-cow stalls with feeding troughs dressed with moulded brickwork, through passage along back wall behind feeding troughs. Barn and cowhouse form 2 sides of a square yard (q.v. store/stable/pigsty block). Raised brick standing running along outside walls within yard. An unusually well preserved courtyard group.

Listing NGR: SP1676628416