Barn Approximately 30 Metres South Of Fell Yeat Farmhouse At Side

SEDBERGH

SD6791 FROSTROW LANE, Frostrow 162-1/22/339 (North side) Barn approx. 30m south of Fell Yeat Farmhouse at Side

GV II

Bank barn; unoccupied at time of inspection (1994). Probably earlier C18. Mixed random rubble with large irregular quoins, stone slate roof (north slope replaced with corrugated asbestos sheet). Rectangular 4-bay plan at right-angles to slope, with shippon under north-west end. EXTERIOR: 2 unequal storeys. The south-west side has a wagon doorway to the 3rd bay (approached by an L-shaped stone and earth ramp), with a lintel made of re-used cruck blades protected by a prominent stone-slate drip-course, and C19 harr-hung doors; to the left a stone-slate drip-course runs over the shippon storey, which has a blocked 2-light mullioned window and a doorway right of this altered as a window, and the wall above has a few random through-stones. The north-west gable end has a square-headed doorway to the shippon, a stone-slate band, and 2 courses of through-stones alternating with 2 levels of small square breathers. The north-east side has through-stones on 3 levels, small square breathers to the upper 2 levels, and a blocked wagon doorway to the 3rd bay which has a lintel and drip-band like those of the south-west doorway. INTERIOR: 3 collar trusses, 2 of them with raked struts, and 2 of the principals made of re-used cruck blades; original purlins to south slope. Forms group with Fell Yeat Farmhouse (qv).

Listing NGR: SD6771091186