Farm Buildings Adjoining Stable Courtyard

SE 08 NE PRESTON-UNDER-SCAR BOLTON HALL

9/56 Farm Buildings adjoining Stable Courtyard

GV II

Barn, cart-sheds, stables and ancillary buildings. Early-mid C19. Rubble, stone slate roofs. Single- and 2-storey ranges, forming 2 courtyards. Barn facing west: 2 storeys. 3 board doors below 4-pane overlights. To right, large barn doors in C20 opening. To left, small window. First floor: 3 window openings. At right angles, behind left end, and abutting at its other end the north-west corner of the stable courtyard (q.v.) a 2-storey block facing south: 5 cart-shed openings partially infilled and with board doors. At each end a fixed-light window. Above, 7 part-shuttered windows. Interior: in each bay a pair of stalls for farm horses. At back an added range facing north, forming 3-bay cart-shed with hay-loft above with three 12-pane unequally-hung sash windows, and another, lean-to, outbuilding. Across courtyard, single-storey range facing south: 8-bay cart-shed. 7 open bays of segmental arches, the 8th bay divided off, to form forge, with board doors in opening, tripartite side-sliding sash window under deep lintel, and chimney. At right end, closing east end of yard, single-storey return range facing west, forming pig slaughter-house, tack-room and workshop. 3 board doors below cambered arches, flanked by 2 window openings. At left end, partially closing west end of yard, single-storey return range facing east forming joiner's shop, with 2 segmental-arched cart openings blocked with side-sliding sash window and board stable door. Hipped roof to left. Single-storey game larder approximately 5 metres to west, with board door in south gable end, with louvred ventilator above. 2 single-storey rest rooms approximately 10 metres to west of barn, each of 1 bay, gable-entry with board doors. Lateral ashlar stacks.

Listing NGR: SE0742489813