Rosebank Barn

Materials: local slate-stone with elongated quoins, traces of a boulder plinth and Lakeland slate roofs laid in diminishing courses.

Plan: a two-level variant bank barn oriented east to west and built into the rising slope. The upper level is occupied by a barn with a stable to the right and the lower level comprises a cow house, all accessed through separate entrances. The added lean-to to the north east corner probably also served as a stable and there is a later stone platform attached to the north elevation.

Exterior: the main (north) elevation facing into the farmyard has a wide entrance with a pentice roof and is fitted with heavy wooden double doors. Small square openings to the right ventilate the upper parts. Further to the right is a single entrance with a timber lintel and drip mould over, flanked to the right by a rectangular window with a stone lintel. To the left of the main double entrance there is an added lean-to. The rear (south) elevation has a number of through-stones and a central single entrance interpreted as a winnowing door. The west gable is not visible being placed into the slope, and the east gable has a centrally placed single entrance, with drip mould. The added lean-to to the right also has a single entrance with a rectangular window.

Interior: the main double entrance leads into the upper threshing barn; immediately to the right of the entrance there is a full cruck truss with a yoke and blades that formerly carried side purlins; the truss is modified in its upper parts by additional timber supports. Immediately to the left of the entrance there is a triangular truss, the three members formed by the re-used remains of a second cruck truss. Some of the purlins and the ridge piece may be reused original timbers but the remainder of the roof structure is formed of modern replacement timbers. The single entrance on the north elevation leads into a small room with a renewed roof structure, probably the former stable. The door through the east gable enters into the lower level formerly the cowhouse; this has been refurbished with plastered walls although a single, later stone stall division remains. The interior of the added lead-to, interpreted as a later stable with hayloft over has been similarly refurbished and is featureless.