Farm Buildings At Colburn Farm

The farm buildings at Colburn Farm consist of a range of structures including a barn, an attached horse-engine house, cow-byres, and cart-sheds. The barn dates from the late 18th century, while the engine-house and cow-byres are from the early 19th century, and the cart-sheds were added in the mid-19th century. The buildings are constructed from coursed rubble and feature pantile roofs.

The barn is two storeys high with six internal bays, while the engine-house, cart-sheds, and cow-byres are all single storey. On the north elevation of the barn, there are quoins, board stable doors, first-floor pitching doors, shuttered windows, and vents, all topped with ashlar coping. There are single-storey extensions projecting forward to the left, which are not of special interest. The south elevation mirrors the north, with a six-sided engine-house added in the center.

The engine-house features depressed segmental arches made of ashlar voussoirs with herringbone tooling in draughted margins, with one opening to the west now blocked. It has a hipped roof with stone ridge copings, although the easternmost roof has been covered with corrugated metal sheeting. The cow-byres project from the barn on the left (south-west) and have three large board doors in depressed segmental-arched openings of ashlar voussoirs with herringbone tooling in draughted margins. The cart-shed is attached to the left end of the cow-byre range and is set forward, featuring quoins and two segmental-arched openings.

Inside the engine-house, there is a complex roof structure derived from king-post construction, with large beams that were used to support engine shafting, which has since been removed.