Barn With Stables And Oran Cottages Numbers One, Two And Four

This is an 18th-century threshing barn with stables, a cart-shed now forming Oran Cottage no 4, and two attached cottages, Oran Cottages nos 1 and 2. The barn is constructed of brick with some rubble patching and ashlar dressings, topped by a pantile roof. Cottages 1 and 2 have brick facades and rubble returns, also with pantile roofs and stone slates to the eaves. Cottage 4 is of rubble construction with a Welsh slate roof.

The barn has 9 internal bays and is characterised by ashlar quoins and bays divided by pilaster buttresses. A large central doorway is framed in chamfered ashlar sandstone with a keystone, with a matching pitching doorway on the first floor to the left, and an altered pitching doorway to the right. A stable doorway is located to the left of the central doorway, with a pitching doorway above it in a plain stone surround. Further windows and vents are visible on the ground floor and eaves, with stepped dentilled eaves, shaped kneelers, ashlar copings, and a weather vane to the right gable. A projecting outbuilding to the right is not of special interest. The right return features a board pitching door to the first floor with a wrought-iron hoist, and projecting ashlar perches below a pigeoncote.

Oran Cottages 1 and 2 are situated to the left of the barn. The right-hand cottage has a central 20th-century panel door with 4-pane sash windows in wooden frames, in concrete surrounds to the ground floor, and brick segmental arches above. The left-hand cottage has openings with sandstone wedge lintels, a central 20th-century panel door with overlight, and sash windows with glazing bars in wooden architraves. A double stack is located between the two cottages. Added rear outshuts to the cottages are not of particular note. Cottage 4’s west elevation features two blocked brick segmental arches, now forming a casement window and stable door.

Inside the barn, a full-height dividing wall separates the left three bays as stables, containing stalls and mangers for three horses. An inserted half-height wall is located to the right of the stable. Brick pilaster buttresses support the roof's collared principal-rafter trusses, which retain original through-purlins, rafters, and a ridge piece.