Courtyard Range Adjoining Yanwath Hall

The courtyard range adjoining Yanwath Hall is a Grade I listed building that includes stables, a barn, and brewhouses, which are partly fortified and now serve as barns and garages for Yanwath Hall. The structure dates from the 15th and 16th centuries, with some alterations made in the 19th century. The walls are constructed from a mix of large blocks of red, yellow, and pink sandstone, topped with steeply-pitched roofs that feature graduated greenslate and sandstone slates.

The east range, which now functions as a barn and connects to the hall, consists of three bays. The north range, built in the 16th century, contains stables and hay lofts and is two storeys high with seven bays. The barn has an off-centre 19th-century archway leading into the courtyard. The outer wall features a central segmental-arched doorway and a flat-arched door on the right. There are upper-floor loft doors and small windows with chamfered surrounds, one of which has an iron grille. The left link to the hall includes 20th-century windows and a lower 19th-century lean-to with a plank door and a 20th-century window.

The right return wall of the barn is taller and has battlements, creating a fighting platform and a battlemented watch turret. The inner wall of the barn facing the courtyard contains two 15th-century doorways and a loop with an iron grille. The stable range has a right segmental 16th-century archway on the courtyard side, which now has 20th-century garage doors. It also features round-arched doorways, one of which is blocked with a casement window inserted. There are central and large left openings with iron grilles, as well as external stone steps at either end leading to loft doorways, along with another loft doorway and upper-floor openings with chamfered surrounds. The interior of the barn retains some 15th or 16th-century roof trusses, one of which is infilled with wattle and daub. This building has group value with Yanwath Hall. A further single-storey range that completes the fourth side of the courtyard is not of interest.