Barn/Implement Store With Clock Tower East Of Mechi Farmhouse

This building is a barn and implement store with a clock tower, located east of Mechi Farmhouse in Blennerhasset. It was constructed in 1865 for William Lawson of Brayton. The structure features polychrome rubble walls with flush red-sandstone quoins and is topped with a Welsh slate roof, while the rear span has a corrugated asbestos roof. The clock tower is made of red-sandstone ashlar and is attached to a long, two-storey, six-bay building with a double span and a tall square clock tower on the left. The building has three segmental arches with boarded doors and two 20th-century sliding plank doors, all situated beneath a loft doorway and plain sandstone openings, one of which is glazed. The tower originally had round clock-face openings on each side beneath round-arched vents, but the clock has since been removed. William Lawson noted in "Ten Year of Gentleman Farming" in 1874 that the facility was intended to fatten sheep effectively, although the scheme did not succeed. This building is part of a model farm group and is listed for its group value with Mechi Farmhouse and the surrounding farm buildings.