Barn Approximately 5 Metres To South West Of Arbour Hill House

SW 29 SW 4/53 13.2.67

HORNBY HORNBY PARK Barn approximately 5 metres to south-west of Arbour Hill House (formerly listed under 'Two barns, Arbour Hill adjoining the House on the south east and south west')

GV II

Barn. c1760. For Robert Conyers Darcy, Earl of Holderness, of Hornby Castle (qv). Coursed rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings, pantile roof with stone slates at eaves. 2 storeys, 5 ground-floor bays. Quoins. Blocked central doorway with ashlar surround, keyed extended lintel. Blocked doorways in first and fifth bays, that to left with ashlar lintel. Wide C20 opening below timber lintel in second bay. In fourth bay, 2 small windows with stone surrounds, that to left blocked. First-floor band, formerly interrupted by circular pitching eyes with ashlar surrounds in second and fourth bays, that in second bay now a blocked C20 opening. First floor: small openings with stone surrounds, 3 at each end, some blocked, one with vertical slab louvres. Eaves band. Rear: blocked large central doorway with depressed segmental arch breaking through first-floor band. Blocked opening to left replacing pitching eye; pitching eye interrupting band to right. Left return: pitching eye interrupting band, with 2 small openings with stone surrounds on each floor. Right return: pitching eye interrupting band. This barn forms part of a formal composition with the house and the barn to the south-east of the house.

Listing NGR: SE2225892556