Cow House And Barn With Attached Horse Engine House North East Of Crofters Public House

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SD27SW HOLBECK PARK AVENUE 708-1/4/79 (East side) 05/05/78 Cow house and barn with attached horse-engine house NE of Crofters Public House (Formerly Listed as: HOLBECK PARK AVENUE Barns and piggeries to W of Holbeck Farmhouse)

GV II

Cow house and barn with attached horse-engine house. Late C18 and early-mid C19, altered. Yellow and red sandstone rubble, slate and corrugated sheet roofs. L-shaped range: 2 storey barn with lower cow house attached at right angles; 1-storey horse-engine house adjoins north end of barn, whilst west side has lean-to addition. Barn: late C18: chamfered plinth, large quoins, slit vents and square vent holes. East side, facing yard, has 4 doorways with basket arches of alternating yellow and red voussoirs; the doorway on right is at 1st-floor level above a horizontally-sliding door. Gabled end has incomplete owl hole (indicates lowered roof). Cow house: south side to yard has 5 doors and 5 windows with projecting sills; all have square heads and all boarded up at time of survey, left door and window are within an infilled arch; 3 incomplete ridge vents. Horse-engine house: rectangular with 3 segmentally-arched openings in gabled north end. INTERIORS: cow house has pattern-book king-post trusses. Horse-engine house has massive king-post truss from which 2 parallel beams link to the barn. Barn roof has later iron trusses.

Listing NGR: SD2283470048