U-shaped range of farmbuildings including attached wall, railings and gateway immediately to West of farmhouse at the Farmstead

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BEWERLEY BEWERLEY U-shaped range of farmbuildings including attached wall, railings and gateway immediately to West of farmhouse at the Farmstead

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Combination farmbuilding now cowhouse, disused hen-house and loose boxes. c.1870, with later addition. For the Yorke family of Bewerley Hall. Deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone; graduated Welsh slate roofs.

U-shaped plan: elongated two-storey main range with one-storey wings on east side flanking a paved yard which is enclosed by walls, railings and gates on east side; further walls enclose yards on south side and orchard on west side.

Main range (east side) : slatted casement to ground floor on left of external stone steps with iron handrail; beneath the landing is a folding door and above is a boarded door in quoined opening; two slatted casements to first floor. Corniced stack at eaves on left; hipped roof.

Wing to front left ; quoined openings; window flanked by doors at front end, hipped roof. Right return has boarded doors pierced by slot vents; round-arched opening on right with stone ledge inclined towards internal water trough. Left return has similar doors with narrow windows between.

Wing to front right (of slightly later date) has a series of slatted casements and doorways (some blocked) to its left return; front end window beneath hipped roof. The yard between the wings is enclosed by dwarf walls with railings which curve in to simple iron gates hung on round headed stone piers.

Attached wall on south side of range has chamfered copings and curves round to line roadside and to enclose 2 yards; wall continues on left side of the two-storey range to enclose an orchard. Major element of planned home farm formerly serving Bewerley Hall.

Listing NGR: SE1638064525