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

CATTERICK ORAN SE 29 NE 5/50 Barn with stables and Oran Cottages Nos 1, 2 and 4

GV II

Threshing barn with stables, attached cart-shed now Oran Cottage no 4, and 2 attached unoccupied cottages, Oran Cottages nos 1 and 2. C18 barn, early C19 cartshed and cottages. Brick barn with some rubble patching and ashlar dressings, with pantile roof; cottages 1 and 2 with brick facade, rubble to other sides, pantile roof with stone slates to eaves; Cottage 4: rubble with Welsh slate roof. Barn: 9 internal bays; all cottages 2 storeys, 2 bays, nos 1 and 2 to left; no 4 to rear right. Barn: ashlar quoins. Bays divided by pilaster buttresses. Central tall doorway of chamfered ashlar sandstone with large keystone, and matching pitching doorway on first floor to left, also altered pitching doorway to right. On ground floor, further left, chamfered quoined ashlar stable doorway, with pitching doorway above in plain stone surround, with window to left in moulded architrave and inserted window to right of stable door. To right of central doorway, inserted stable doorway and small irregular windows. Vents. Stepped dentilled eaves. Shaped kneelers, ashlar copings. Small ridge stack to left, and eaves stack to right. Weather-vane to right gable. Rear: opposing similar tall doorway. Outbuilding projecting to right not of special interest. Right return: board pitching door to first floor with wrought-iron hoist and, in gable, projecting ashlar perches below pigeoncote. Cottage 1 and 2 to left of barn. Right cottage: central C20 panel door with 4-pane sash windows in flush wood frames, in concrete surrounds on ground floor and with stone sills and brick segmental arches on first floor. Left cottage: openings have sandstone wedge lintels. Central C20 panel door below overlight with marginal panes and decorative glazing bars, all in quoined surround. Sash windows with glazing bars in flush wood architraves on ground floor, 9-pane unequally-hung sash windows on first floor. Double stack between the 2 cottages. Added rear outshuts to cottages not of special interest. Cottage 4, west elevation: 2 ground-floor brick segmental arches now blocked to form casement window and stable door. Interior of barn: full-height dividing wall separates left 3 bays as stables, with stalls and mangers for 3 farm horses. Inserted half-height wall to stable to right. Brick pilaster buttresses inside support the roof of collared principal-rafter roof trusses with original through-purlins, rafters and ridge piece.

Listing NGR: SE2513096398