Outbuilding Approximately 10 Metres North Of Newton Hall Farmhouse

This is an outbuilding, likely originally a house or oven house, dating to the 16th century with later alterations. It is situated approximately 10 metres north of Newton Hall Farmhouse. The building is constructed of large gritstone blocks and coursed gritstone rubble, with a graduated stone slate roof. It has a single storey, comprising two bays, with a cellar underneath the eastern bay.

The south face features an inserted doorway with a board door and a wooden lintel, partially hidden by a single-storey passage connecting to the main house. A two-light recessed chamfered mullion window is to the right, and a similar window lights the cellar to the far right. A large, stepped external stack is located on the left gable, featuring a stone gutter and water spout approximately 2.5 metres above ground level, with a corniced shaft and two flues.

The east gable return has five steps up to a central board door, inserted into the position of a former three-light recessed chamfered mullion window. Flanking the door are chamfered cellar windows, partially obscured by the ground. A small stone shield is built into the apex of the gable.

On the north face, a segmental-arched doorway with chamfered quoins and a large lintel is located towards the right. A blocked inserted doorway is found far left, with two quoined straight joins indicating the former position of a chimney stack to the left of centre. An irregularly shaped panel of brickwork to the right is pierced by a segmental-arched window.

Inside, the western stack serves a large cambered-arched fireplace with joggled voussoirs, and the remains of a brick-lined oven are in the north-west corner; two set pots are built into the fireplace. A timber-framed stud and plaster partition divides the interior, with steps leading down to the cellar at the south end. A large stone in the north wall, above the cellar, may be the lintel of a former fireplace, and the wall is thickened to contain a flue. The roof trusses rest on tie beams set on wall plates, with principal rafters linked by a thin collar and two tiers of trenched purlins.

Historically, the large western stack was likely a free-standing structure against the gable wall of a 16th-century timber-framed building. Stone walls replaced the timber framing in the early 17th century, and a second chimney was added to serve the eastern room. The flue is clean and may have been used as a hiding place. The size of the west stack suggests that in the 17th century, the building functioned as a bakehouse or kitchen for Newton Hall. It is theorized that the original timber-framed structure may have been larger, although no direct evidence of this remains.