Lane Foot Farm bank barn, attached possible smithy and cartshed and detached former wash house

Lane Foot Farm bank barn is an 18th-century building constructed from local rubble stone with prominent quoins and Lakeland slate roofs. The farm complex comprises a main bank barn, an attached possible smithy and cartshed, and a detached former wash house.

The rectangular bank barn is oriented north-east to south-west and is set into sloping ground that rises towards the rear. It is a two-storey structure with substantial elongated quoins at its principal corners and regular rows of through stones. The pitched roof shows evidence of modifications through inserted and blocked openings.

The south-east elevation features a two-storey projecting central bay, thought to be a stable with hayloft above, which has prominent quoins and through-stones. This bay has a first-floor ventilation slit and winnowing door, and the ground floor contains a single ventilation slit and a small inserted window, probably a modified ventilation slit. To the left of the projecting bay is an original entrance to the ground floor flanked by a window, and to the right is a doorway flanked by inserted windows. The south-west gable is largely blank except for an inserted ground-floor window and a doorway partly blocked to form a window. The rear north-west elevation has a centrally placed entrance with a pentice roof fitted with wooden wide boarded double doors, and another entrance to the left under a timber lintel.

On the ground floor, the barn retains its original subdivision into three compartments formerly comprising cow house, stable, and possible cartshed. The stable retains a pair of stalls with an orthostatic subdividing wall. The south-east projecting bay is accessed by a pair of original entrances from the main barn body into a space subdivided by a similar orthostatic wall into a pair of stalls. Original substantial timber beams support the first floor. The first floor comprises a large open space with a wooden threshing floor and retains a pair of drop feeders to the right of the main entrance through which feed was poured to reach the stable below. Four pegged trusses of the original roof structure remain in place, as do the double purlins, with only a few replacements.

Attached to the north-east gable is a two-storey, single-bay building with a hipped roof, a later modification; traces of the original higher-pitched roof are visible on the north-east gable of the bank barn. The south-east elevation has a ground-floor entrance and a single window beneath a continuous slate drip mould, with a single first-floor window. The ground floor shows evidence of minor industrial activity through curvilinear alcoves and narrow rectangular openings or shelves within the rear-wall thickness; a projecting stone construction is interpreted as the truncated remains of a possible forge structure, suggesting this building may have operated as a small smithy. The upper floor comprises a single open space with the remodelled hipped roof structure utilising members of the original pitched roof. Attached to its rear is an open-fronted building thought to be a cartshed.

The former wash house is situated to the south-west of the bank barn. It is a small rectangular building built into the rising ground with a pitched roof and a prominent chimney stack to its west end. A modified entrance and window are located on the east gable. The interior has been modified by later use as a dairy, with the boiler removed and a slate shelf inserted.