Range Of Agricultural Buildings Approximately Five Metres North Of Crabtree House

NZ 10 NE 6/148

GILLING WITH HARTFORTH AND SEDBURY WATERS LANE (south side) Range of agricultural buildings approximately 5 metres north of Crabtree House

GV II

Barn with engine house attached to west side and with added L-shaped range to north, with later cart-shed further to north. Barn probably of C18 date, with late C19 additions. Rubble, Welsh slate, pantile and C20 clay interlocking tile roofs. 1 and 2 storeys. Barn: Welsh slate roof; 2 storeys, 4 bays; quoins; the openings with deep lintels. To south of engine house, board door on ground floor, 2 first-floor openings, 1 blocked, the other shuttered. To north of engine house, board door and 2 slit vents to its left, 1 shuttered first-floor opening. Shaped kneelers, ashlar copings. Engine house: C19; single storey, projecting at right angles, pantile roof with stone slates at eaves, ashlar coping to outer side. On north side, 2 large openings, now blocked, and in centre, square-plan chimney, approximately 15 metres high, in hard brick, with rounded corners, with square base with small round-arched opening on north side, and tapering stack with ashlar sandstone torus moulding. Attached to north end of barn, L-shaped 2-storey range of c1881, calf boxes on ground floor, with granary above, in snecked stone with quoins, and with quoined openings with rounded arrises; C20 clay interlocking tile roof. On ground floor, 3 shuttered openings and board sliding door; on first floor, 3 shuttered openings and pitching door. Hipped roof to left. North return: 2 shuttered ground-floor openings, 3 shuttered first-floor openings; ashlar coping to left. Projecting from ground floor right, single-storey cart-shed with 4 segmental-arched openings, the fourth rebated for doors and separated internally from the others; pantile roof. The use of machinery powered by stationary steam engines in North Yorkshire is fairly unusual. This type of engine house and chimney is more commonly found in County Durham and Northumberland, but is rare to the south of that region.

Listing NGR: NZ1677005330