North Barn, Beckfoot

The Northern Section of the Cartshed at Beckfoot is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay farmhouse with a basement, located at the southeast end of a courtyard steading, featuring gatepiers at the southwest. The house is constructed of squared red rubble coursers with ashlar dressings and painted margins. It has a nearly full-height shallow west wing, which is raised in brick and also painted. Both the north (courtyard) and south elevations have a central door; the south door has a pedimented doorpiece with engaged Roman Doric columns and a modern door, while the north door is behind a glazed porch, with steps leading down to a basement door alongside. Most windows are sash style with a 12-pane glazing pattern. There is a round-headed, keystoned tall stair window on the east flank that features intersecting tracery. The house has end stacks and a piended roof covered with graded slates. A small garden with iron railings is present in the courtyard.

Inside, there are some pilastered doorcases and a depressed-arched screen leading to the stairs.

The gatepiers, which are contemporary with the house, consist of two chamfered square painted ashlar piers with projecting caps and a cavetto cornice, along with wrought-iron gates.

The steading is L-shaped, with walls that enclose the courtyard on the south and east, both linked to the house. It is built of rubble with ashlar dressings, all whitewashed. The west range, which is a barn, was probably built in the second half of the 18th century and is two-storey with an upper loft storey. It has a single bay cartshed with keystoned flat arches and a forestair built against the courtyard's south wall. The east gable features a triangular dovecote, and there is a modern lean-to addition to the court. The roof is also covered with graded slates. The stable in the altered and heightened north range has a corrugated roof.