Northfields Farmhouse And Attached Barn

MICKLEBY NZ 81 SW 6/245 Northfields Farmhouse and attached barn

• II Farmhouse and barn, mid-late C18, possibly with older core. Red handmade brick in English garden wall bond, 4 and 1, with stone plinth and some dressings. Pantiled roof with tiled ridge, stone copings and kneelers, brick stacks. L-plan, house facing south and barn facing west. Hearth-passage plan to house. Main house 2 storeys, 2 windows; downhouse 2 storeys, lower, 1 wide bay and passage. C19 6-panel passage door. Small panel 3-light C20 casements, those on ground floor under flat gauged brick arches, except for 3-light Yorkshire sash on first floor of downhouse. Main house projects, with blocked fire window on inner left return. Shaped kneelers; end chimneys. Right return and rear rendered, with L-shaped out- house extension. Barn running north from left return: 2 storeys and basement, 4 bays. Two stable doors, in stone alternating-block surrounds, and 4 small windows. Stone external stair to boarded left door near north end. House interior: Opposed doors from through-passage, that into houseplace a plank door in chamfered opening. Quarter-round moulded beams in old kitchen. Several plank cupboards with L-hinges. Stairs behind passage behind houseplace; dairy behind parlour. Subsidiary stairs up from kitchen. Stone extension to barn is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ8083014220