Rosebank Barn

Rosebank Barn is a two-level bank barn dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, built into a rising slope and facing east to west. It is constructed of local slate-stone with elongated quoins, featuring traces of a boulder plinth, and has Lakeland slate roofs laid in diminishing courses.

The barn is arranged with a barn and stable on the upper level, and a cow house on the lower level, each accessed through separate entrances. A lean-to was added to the north-east corner, likely also serving as a stable, and a later stone platform is attached to the north elevation.

The north elevation, facing into the farmyard, has a wide entrance with a pentice roof and heavy wooden double doors. Small square openings ventilate the upper parts. A single entrance with a timber lintel and drip mould is flanked to the right by a rectangular window with a stone lintel. A lean-to is situated to the left of the main entrance. The south elevation has through-stones and a central single entrance, interpreted as a winnowing door. The west gable is set into the slope, and the east gable features a centrally placed single entrance with a drip mould, alongside a single entrance and a rectangular window in the added lean-to.

Inside, the main double entrance leads to the upper threshing barn, featuring a full cruck truss with a yoke and blades that formerly carried side purlins, with modern timber supports added to the upper parts. Immediately to the left is a triangular truss formed from reused timbers of a second cruck truss. Some of the purlins and the ridge piece may be original timbers, with the remainder replaced. The north entrance leads to a small room, probably a former stable, with a renewed roof. The east gable entrance leads to the lower level, the former cow house, which has been refurbished with plastered walls, retaining a single later stone stall division. The interior of the lean-to, interpreted as a later stable with a hayloft over, is also refurbished and featureless.