Bunkers Hill And Barns/Byres Adjoining

NY 43 SE DACRE GREYSTOKE

13/58 Bunkers Hill and barns/byres adjoining 27.12.67

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Farmhouse and barn/byres adjoining. Built to commemorate the battle of Bunkers Hill in the American War of Independence so inscribed on front wall BUNKERS HILL JUNE 17TH 1775. Late C18 for the 11th Duke of Norfolk (a supporter of the American cause) with additions dated and inscribed HCH 1890 (Henry Charles Howard). Pink sandstone ashlar walls with string courses and battlemented parapet, with V-jointed quoins. Sloping graduated greenslate roof; banded ashlar chimney stacks some of C20 brick. Barns and byres of dressed red sandstone with raised quoins, under graduated greenslate roofs with coped gables and kneelers. Canted-in house front of 2½ storeys, 3 bays with lower flanking contemporary barns, the extension on the 3rd side forming rough overall U-shape. Pointed-arched sash windows with glazing bars, some double, and smaller similar attic windows. Parapet inscription over carved lion. Flanking barns have large central pointed-arched cart entrances in alternate-block surrounds; that to left of house has a large casement window with glazing bars. Barns have rear plank doorways and casement windows in stone surrounds. Left large C20 sliding doors, blocked loft doorways and pent extension. One of a group of 3 farmhouse follies in the Greystoke area. See Barbara Jones, Follies & Grottoes, 1974, pp.303-4; Country Life, 30 June 1983, 1796-1800.

Listing NGR: NY4584430876