Range Of 3 Farmbuildings And Attached Engine House To North West Of Centre Farmhouse

The range of three farm buildings and attached engine house dates from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century and is located to the north-west of Centre Farmhouse.

The buildings consist of two byres and a cart lodge, with an engine house attached to the northern byre. The northern byre was built in the mid to late 18th century, the central byre around 1800, the cart lodge in the early 19th century, and the engine house in the mid-19th century, along with later alterations. The buildings are constructed of coursed, squared, herringbone-tooled stone, with the engine house built of red brick in English garden wall bond on a stone plinth. They have pantile roofs with stone coping and ridges, although the engine house incorporates some 20th-century concrete interlocking tiles.

On the west elevation, the northern byre is largely obscured by the engine house, but retains slit vents and a bird hole on the right side, along with a cyma-moulded eaves band and shaped kneeler at the right end. The engine house is gabled with two segmental-arched openings and a blind oculus in the gable. A 20th-century lean-to on the left side is not of special interest. A central brick pier on the right side features a doorway to the right and a blocked segmental-arched opening on the left.

The central byre has a three-bay facade with a central board door flanked by small windows, all with stone lintels, and an eaves band. A 20th-century wooden lean-to masks the left bay and is not of special interest. The cart lodge, at the south end, has a lower three-bay facade featuring two elliptical-arched cart entries on the left, partially blocked and with later doors. It also has an eaves band, a blocking kneeler and chamfered coping to the right gable.

The east elevation of the northern byre displays a central doorway flanked by board loft hatches, and a small light to the left at lower level. The cart lodge has a central board door and an added lean-to on the left.

Inside the northern byre, stone columns support curved principal-rafter roof trusses with collars, through purlins and a square-section, diagonally-set ridge-piece. The engine house features large-scantling beams and a collared queen-post roof truss. The central byre and cart lodge showcase collared principal rafter roof trusses and two tiers of tusk-tenoned purlins.