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

NZ 50 NE 5/76

INGLEBY GREENHOW Barn with engine house and attached cart lodge with loft over, at north-west end of Drummer Hill Farmhouse

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Barn with engine house and attached cart lodge with loft (formerly granary) over. Early C19 of different builds with mid C19 engine house; later alterations. Coursed squared herringbone-tooled stone, cart lodge of red brick at rear; pantile roof with stone coping and ridge. 3 + 4 bays, with straight joint between. 3 left bays; blocked door; slit vent; stone steps up to loft door with 2 small openings to its left. 4-bay barn on right. Stable door to 2nd bay with stone lintel; small window to left. Continuous eaves band. Rear: barn has slit vents and eaves band. On left is gabled engine house which has 2 small openings with C20 glazing and to right return a board door on right of pier and window to left. Cart lodge has 2 elliptical arches with old hinges set in stones and C20 board doors; slit vents, some blocked; 2 loft openings with board shutters; stone eaves band. Interior: cart lodge has brick piers supporting collared trusses. Barn has stone piers supporting iron bolted and braced king-post roof trusses and 2 tiers of tusk-tenoned purlins; mortices in walls indicate there was formerly a loft to 2 right-hand bays. Engine house retains engine wheel which springs from stone base and has central iron post with wooden braces up to the cross-beams which support the wheel. The in-situ horse engine is a rare example. It is illustrated in M. Hartley and J. Ingilby, Life in the Moorland of North-east Yorkshire (1972), pl.119.

Listing NGR: NZ5697507561