Barn With Engine House And Attached Cart Lodge With Loft Over, At North West End Of Drummer Hill Farmhouse

This is a barn with an engine house and an attached cart lodge with a loft over, located at the north-west end of Drummer Hill Farmhouse. It dates from the early 19th century and consists of different builds, with the engine house added in the mid-19th century and later alterations made. The structure is built from coursed squared stone with herringbone tooling, while the cart lodge at the rear is made of red brick. It features a pantile roof with stone coping and ridge.

The building has three bays on the left side and four bays on the right, separated by a straight joint. The left side includes a blocked door, a slit vent, and stone steps leading up to a loft door, which has two small openings to its left. The right side contains a four-bay barn, with a stable door in the second bay that has a stone lintel and a small window to the left. There is a continuous eaves band along the structure.

On the rear, the barn has slit vents and an eaves band. The engine house on the left has a gabled roof with two small openings fitted with 20th-century glazing, and a board door on the right side of a pier with a window to the left. The cart lodge features two elliptical arches with old hinges set in stones and 20th-century board doors, along with some blocked slit vents and two loft openings with board shutters, as well as a stone eaves band.

Inside, the cart lodge has brick piers that support collared trusses. The barn contains stone piers that support iron bolted and braced king-post roof trusses, along with two tiers of tusk-tenoned purlins. Mortices in the walls indicate that there was once a loft in the two right-hand bays. The engine house retains a horse engine, which is a rare example, featuring an engine wheel that springs from a stone base and has a central iron post with wooden braces extending to the cross-beams that support the wheel. This in-situ horse engine is illustrated in M. Hartley and J. Ingilby’s book, "Life in the Moorland of North-east Yorkshire" (1972), plate 119.