Barn And Cowhouse On North Side Of Farmyard At The Farmstead

This building is a barn and cowhouse dated 'IY 1870', constructed for the Yorke family of Bewerley Hall. It is made of deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a graduated Welsh slate roof. The structure has a U-shaped plan and consists of two storeys, with the cowhouse located in the undercroft beneath an 11-bay hay barn that has south-facing wings at each end.

The south side, which faces the farmyard, includes a raised arcade with five bays supported by tapered, square columns, impost stores, and round arches. Beneath the arcade are recesses with slatted casements that provide light to the undercroft, and there are wide boarded doors on each side. The left wing has a large, square-headed cart entrance with a shouldered stone lintel, above which is a casement with glazing bars and pigeon holes. The right wing features three segmental archways, with the rightmost one blocked, and has a casement and door in a quoined surround. The roof is hipped, but the barn on the right return has a gabled end.

At the rear of the barn, there are four segmentally-arched openings, with the rightmost set higher, along with two rows of slit vents and an arched feeding-passage opening. The left return displays 'IY/1870' on the lintel of the cart entrance. Inside, a door to the right of the barn arcade leads to a feeding passage that connects to openings into the vaulted cowhouse. This barn and cowhouse is a significant element of the planned home farm that once served Bewerley Hall.