Farm Buildings, Ireley Farm

STANWAY A46 SP 03 SW (east side) 3/97 Farm buildings, Ireley Farm GV II Farmstead. Various dates in second half C19, for Toddington Estate. Coursed, squared stone, projecting ashlar quoins to stable and barn range; ashlar to front of hackney stable; stone slates. Buildings around main yard, around 2 sides of adjoining yard, further wing other side. Mainly single storey, stable and granary lofted. Barn range, facing house (projecting wing away from road); single bay on right, slightly lower and narrower than rest: boarded door, stone lintel (rooms for poultry). To left, blank wall, quoins each end, boarded door to granary stairs, double boarded doors and boarding, timber lintel and rendered panel over. Double boarded doors, stone lintel: 3-bay barn on left, slightly lower: double boarded doors with cambered timber lintel, slit air vents each side with 3 short cross slits. Interior: right end lofted, interrupted tie-beam trusses: through driveway with later opening to barn: porch on far end. Barn with collar and tie-beam trusses, 2 pairs purlins. Opening to yard on left, lofted stable beyond, raised quoins: boarded door with small window each side, with stone lintels., To left, range at right angles, passage, 3 boarded doors with alternating windows, glass over hit-and-miss ventilators: 2 cowhouses, originally with feeding passage. Return wing on left: 2 pigsties with semi-circular heads to openings, 3 loose boxes for horses, may originally have been nag stable and coach house, one single and one paired stable doors; better-quality stonework, courses sloping to follow line of ground. Separate, return wing to barn, cowhousing, 2-bay stone front alternating doors and windows as opposite, 7-bay partly boarded front, originally open for loose yard cattle. Paved causeway all round yard. Further 2 yards for loose cattle behind, sheds of 2 periods, 6 and 10 bays, original trough survives: cartshed on end nearest stable, opening away from yard, 3-bay with no support to front, trusses with bolted gusset to front, tie-beam and collar, iron queen post, supported by trussed beam set back from wallplate. A good set of little-altered C19 farm buildings; forms group with Ireley Farmhouse (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SP0374830447