Stables, Cart Shed, Granary, Barn And Loose Boxes, To East Of Home Farmhouse

These farm buildings, including stables, a cart shed, a granary, a barn, and loose boxes, are located to the east of the Home Farmhouse. The cart shed, dated 1826 on its central arch keystone, forms the focal point of an ‘E’ shaped complex. Most of the other buildings date to a similar period or slightly later, although the rear section of the ‘E’ was constructed in the 1880s.

Earlier stonework is incorporated into the west wall of the stable building adjacent to Home Farmhouse. These stones, likely from a medieval building – perhaps the Hospital of St. Leonard or a Cistercian nunnery established in Hutton around the 12th century – include three sculpted stones, one depicting the head of an ogee arch, possibly from a stoup or piscina. The visible elevations are of dressed sandstone (1826-1874), while the rear is brick (c.1880), all with clay pantile hipped and gabled roofs featuring stone ridge copings. The western and central sections are single-story, while the eastern section is two-story, with the northern building later raised to two stories at the rear. A rear brick building is partially supported on cast iron pillars.

The interior retains significant machinery, including an 1881 Williamson Brothers turbine from the Canal Iron Works in Kendal, located in the northwest corner. This turbine was designed to power farm machinery via a belt and pulleys mounted on the granary’s end wall. The barn machinery originally included a grist mill, oil cake mill, and chaff cutter, with a bone mill behind the turbine shed. The Williamsons were early manufacturers of water turbines, and surviving examples are rare; this turbine represents one of the last to be constructed. A hydraulic hoist, a double-acting cylinder formed of two cast iron pipes containing a piston, is located in the two-story cart shed and was used to lift heavy loads, typically grain sacks weighing two cwt, to the first floor. It was likely built by W G Armstrong at Elswick Works in Newcastle-upon-Tyne around 1871. A straw riddle and dust extractor, also originally powered by the turbine, remains in the center of the northern building. Historical links with the Pease family, who owned Home Farm and other holdings in Hutton in the mid-to-late 19th century, are documented, alongside their responsibility for the emparkment of land between Hutton Hall and Home Farm.