Barn And Horse Engine House Approximately 30 Metres South East Of Long Lease Farmhouse

Barn and Horse Engine House, Hawsker Lane

This barn and horse engine house, located approximately thirty metres south-east of Long Lease Farmhouse, has been converted into a house. The barn dates from the early 19th century, with a horse engine house added between 1853 and 1892. Conversion to domestic use began in 1996 and remained uncompleted by 2006.

The barn is constructed in partly tooled and partly squared sandstone. The horse engine house features brick piers with sandstone caps. Both structures are covered with a new pantile roof similar to the original, complete with sandstone coping and ridges.

The barn's plan comprises a central section open to the roof with a gallery on the south-east side linking rooms in the roof space at either end. The building is believed to have originally been subdivided with mezzanines at both ends and a central area open to the roof. Current subdivisions and flooring were formed during conversion. The horse engine house is hexagonal and attached to the southern end of the north-east side of the barn, remaining open to its roof.

All windows are modern timber frames without glazing bars. The south-west elevation features a near-central former doorway now converted to a window with boarding below to retain the original opening form, along with repositioned pitching windows and two ventilation slits now blocked internally. The north-west gable has a former door converted to a window with boarding below and a pitching window at attic level, with coping terminating in plain kneelers. The north-east elevation shows a new plank door in the original opening and a ventilation slit, with the horse engine house to the left. The horse engine house's spaces between brick piers are infilled with glazing on three sides away from the barn and vertical timber boarding on the sides adjacent to it. The south-east gable wall has single pitching-style windows at ground and attic floor levels, with coping terminating in plain kneelers.

Internally, the barn's roof structure was replaced during conversion, with roof and walls mostly concealed by plaster. The horse engine house retains much original roof structure, sympathetically repaired, including the principal tie beam and two secondary beams associated with the former horse engine, with part of the bearing for the vertical axle surviving. These beams have been sympathetically repaired. The barn wall facing the horse engine house is exposed, revealing the principal rafters and purlins of the roof.

The barn appears on the 1853 Ordnance Survey 1:10560 map, with the horse engine house added by the 1892 1:2,500 edition. The nearby Scarborough and Whitby Railway's opening in the 1880s possibly prompted the horse engine house addition and its brick construction. The building's distinctive plan form and plain external appearance clearly indicate its former agricultural use, with the survival of framework and roof structure in the hexagonal horse engine house being especially notable. The importance is further enhanced by the survival of other listed buildings at Long Lease Farm across the road. The conversion was undertaken within the Listed Building Consent system.