Barn, And Engine House, Carswalls Manor

The barn and engine house at Carswalls Manor date from the late 18th century or early 19th century, with the engine house possibly added in the late 19th or early 20th century. The structure features an ashlar plinth and is built from English garden wall bond brickwork with a tiled roof. The engine house has weatherboarding on a timber frame, a brick plinth, and a corrugated-iron roof.

The barn consists of eight bays and has two threshing floors, with a loft inserted at the engine house end. The engine house projects from the gable. On the elevation facing the rick yard, there are two pairs of double boarded doors set within a cambered brick arch, positioned slightly higher for lifting purposes. Between these doors and at the ends, there are two large semi-circular headed recesses with a brick grille featuring alternating headers and voids every fourth course. On the extreme left, there is a low 2-light shuttered window with a cambered brick arch. The eaves are adorned with dentils.

The engine house has a plain side wall with a ridge ventilator on the left half and a wide, flat-headed doorway in the left return gable. The left return of the barn features two slit openings with brick arches leading to the engine house for belting to shafting, along with a boarded door, a cambered brick arch, and a shuttered window on the left. Above the slit air-vents on either side, there is a boarded door slightly left of centre, a circular cat hole, and a cambered brick arch. Below, there are remains of a timber platform, although the stairs are missing, and above is a lean-to with a corrugated-iron roof. The gable includes three slit air-vents.

On the cow yard side, there are stone hinge blocks for the barn doors, with small doors cut into one of the large doors. Inside, there are internal buttresses to support the trusses. Originally, there were low walls with timber caps on each side of the threshing floor, but these have been mostly removed except at the left end, where a door has been cut and a ramp leads down to the lower floor. The loft has been inserted with two cast-iron pillars and includes shafting for driving barn machinery. The threshing floors feature queen strut trusses, a king post between, two pairs of butt purlins, a plank ridge, long windbraces from the wall plate to the truss, and cutting rafters. The lean-to on the rick yard side is not of special interest.