BARN AT SD 9813 6744

SD 9867 24/64

CONISTONE WITH KILNSEY MAIN STREET (east side) Conistone Barn at SD 9813 6744

GV II

Barn. Probably early C18, altered C19. Limestone rubble, graduated stone slate roof. 3 bays, the end bays with outshuts on each side of the central cart entrance, creating a porch under a catslide roof. Quoins. The cart entrance has double board doors with strap hinges under a massive single block lintel, broken at the time of resurvey. The porch has quoined jambs and a slim wooden lintel; within the porch board doors with strap hinges open into rooms in the outshuts. A blocked square opening close to ground level in bay 3. Changes in the masonry indicate the line of the original eaves. Rear: central board door with row of pigeon holes to the left: the right bay projects slightly. Left return: Board door right of centre with chamfered quoins and shallow-arched lintel; narrow door with slight lintel and square pitching door above to right. Inserted square window centre, mucking out hole far left. 3 rows of pigeon holes in the gable with a projecting stone sill below the lower row. Random projecting through stones and 4 small vents or scaffold holes. Interior not inspected at resurvey. The rebuilding of wooden houses in the mid to late C17 was closely followed by a period of enclosure and rebuilding of laithes in this area in the early C18. This barn had a central threshing floor and storage area with a large area for hay and straw and probably stalls for cattle at the left end. The outshuts were used as calf-pens. The increase in the size of farm waggons and the variety of machinery in the C19 necessitated the raising of the cart entrance and the eaves of the building. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SD9813467440