Granary, Vantage Farm

Coachhouse: 18th century, remodelled 1873 for G W Mercer-

Henderson. Long 2-storey range set into slope. Squared and

tooled rubble with polished dressings. Courtyard front

remodelled 1873; west part of 2-storey range with 2 carriage

houses 1 with arched head, both with herring-bone boarded

doors, 2 1st floor windows break eaves with segment

dormer-heads, corbelled centre arched window (date stone

below) with clockface in rope moulded frame set into raised

decoratively consoled, pedimented and finialled panel. 5

bays to east with 1 modern stapping with ground floor. Rear

elevation: west section earliest with small sash and case

windows and flyover steps to door on 1st floor. Slightly

later addition at east with regularly placed sash and case

windows. Corniced stacks (1875), slate roof Granary: circa

1830, attached to east gable of coachhouse, long 2 storey

bank barn. Stugged coursers. Segemental arch in SW elevation

opening to courtyard, large entrance to loft on N gable

reached by ramp. Gable head finials (missing at N). Dairy

cottage: 1862, attached to W gable of coachhouse. Single-

storey, 3-bay house, sash and case windows; parallel dairy

block to rear with roof ventilator; 2 west facing gables

with blind oculi. Corniced stack to cottage, elaborate date

panel on dairy. 2 drum gate-piers with bell-cast caps and

spiked cast-iron gates.