Barn Approximately 30 Metres East Of Markington Hall, With Attached Chapel

This building is a barn located approximately 30 metres east of Markington Hall, which has been converted into a chapel. The barn dates back to the 16th century, and may be even older, with restorations carried out in the 19th and 20th centuries. The outbuildings were converted in 1939 by Lord Illingworth for the Wilberforces. The structure features a timber frame clad in sandstone, limestone, and cobble, with a pantile roof that has eaves courses of stone slates on the barn.

The barn has five bays, side aisles, and an attached chapel range that projects at a right angle to the left. The west front displays quoins and a large central double board door, with blocked ventilation slits to the right. The chapel range includes four-panel doors and paired pointed windows. At the rear, facing the road, there is a low cart entrance with a sandstone surround. The left side has an attached outbuilding, now a garage, which is not of special interest. The right side features three rows of three blocked slit vents. The roof is steeply pitched at the ridge and shallower towards the eaves.

Inside, the posts are set on padstones and exhibit clear carpenter's marks. There are braces to the tie beams and arcade plates. The barn has been noted by the North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group in 1977, which concluded that the original barn, possibly built before 1500, had three bays with side and end aisles and timber-framed outer walls. Mortice holes on the surviving posts indicate that the interior was originally divided by timber partitions. The roof trusses consist of narrow principals with collars and short king-posts.