Byres And Barn North East Of Mechi Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1986. Byres and barn.
Byres And Barn North East Of Mechi Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- salt-eave-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1986
- Type
- Byres and barn
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NY 14 SE BLENNERHASSET & TORPENHOW Blennerhasset (NY 17400 41140)
5/11C Byres and barn north- east of Mechi Farmhouse
GV II
Byres and barn incorporating the former turbine house tower and stables. 1863-4 for William Lawson of Brayton. Polychrome rubble walls with flush red-sandstone quoins, under Welsh slate roof, hipped over tower. Long triple-span single storey byres, enclosed on 2 sides by L-shaped stables/granary, with right low square tower and adjoining open sided barn. Boarded doors, some in segmental arches, under loft openings, all with red-sandstone surrounds. Barn roof supported by tall brick piers. Interior has some of the turbine shafts and gearing. The complexities of these buildings are described by William Lawson, Ten Years of Gentleman Farming, 1874 pp.152-155. Forms part of a model farm group and listed for GV with Mechi farmhouse and farm buildings.
Listing NGR: NY1739241140
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