Cartshed, Orrock

This is a 7-bay cartshed and granary, dating from before 1854. It is constructed of roughly dressed rubble stone with dressed ashlar quoins and surrounds. Segmental arches, built with semicircular stones, are used over the dividing piers between bays. Above the cartshed is a hayloft, featuring a hoist window centrally positioned, flanked by three smaller openings. A door leads to the granary in the west gable, to the right; the entrance is now obscured, but remnants of a forestair are visible. Three small openings are present on the southern side of the granary.

The west gable shows partially derelict outer rubble stonework, revealing the cartshed wall. Evidence suggests a former link section, potentially to an older building, with quoins using a pattern of long and short work on a slightly projecting face to the south. First-floor openings are largely filled with timber louvres, though traces of a six-pane glazing pattern remain in windows over the third bay from the left and in the rear openings. The roof is covered with grey slates, with ashlar coped gables and block skewputts.

Originally part of Orrock farm, the cartshed adjoins the north-west boundary wall of the ‘B’ listed Orrock farmhouse. The building is marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1854.