Hutton Hall Barns Farm Steading

Hutton Hall Barns Farm Steading

This is an early 19th-century farm steading, substantially enlarged and altered in the later 19th and 20th centuries. The complex has an E-plan layout with a U-plan courtyard to the west, comprising multiple ranges of varied single and two-storey structures arranged around a working farmyard.

The main ranges are constructed in tooled cream sandstone rubble, with whinstone rubble used in parts of the structure, and tooled sandstone dressings throughout. The steading comprises a single-storey north range, a single-storey seven-bay stable range projecting to the outer left (west), a single-storey seven-bay range projecting to the right (centre), and a further range to the right (east) which incorporates a two-storey seven-bay cartshed and granary. A two-storey near T-plan structure (possibly a former mill) is positioned recessed to the outer right, with later additions at the rear.

The west range's courtyard elevation contains boarded stable doors in all seven bays. Its rear (west) elevation has a square-headed opening offset to the left of centre and a large sliding door to the outer left, with gabled ranges recessed to the outer left.

The north range's courtyard (south) elevation features a boarded door at its centre.

The central range has boarded doors offset to the left and right of centre on its courtyard elevation, with two single windows between them and a two-leaf boarded timber door to the outer right and a square-headed opening to the outer left. Its rear (east) elevation contains two single windows offset to the left of centre, with a two-leaf boarded timber door and further doorways to the outer right.

The east range's cartshed and granary, occupying the centre of the courtyard elevation, features arched cart openings in all bays at ground level and three regularly spaced ventilated windows above. A boarded door appears in a single-storey piended addition to the outer right, with various openings in a gabled addition to the outer left. An adjoining gabled range encloses the courtyard to the north, with a two-leaf boarded timber door centred at ground and an aligned window above. The rear (east) elevation displays arched cart openings with a stone forestair offset to the right of centre, accessing a boarded door that breaks the eaves at first floor under a gabled dormerhead. Ventilated windows at first floor occupy two bays to the left and one bay to the outer right. A two-leaf sliding timber door is set in the single-storey piened addition to the outer left.

The mill block (or former mill) is two-storey with a near T-plan form. Its south (entrance) elevation shows various openings in a gabled projection at the centre, with a boarded door recessed to the outer left and a flat-roofed projection recessed to the right. A gabled ridge cupola is offset to the left above. A two-storey three-bay range adjoins to the right, featuring a boarded opening breaking the eaves at first floor to the left, a ventilated window centred at first floor, and ventilated windows at both floors to the outer right. The east (side) elevation has a gable to the outer left with a ventilated window at ground offset to the left and a ventilated window centred in the gablehead. A single-storey range to the right has boarded timber sliding doors flanking the centre with a ventilated window to the outer right.

Windows throughout are predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames, with small-pane timber uppers to ventilated windows. Various rooflights are scattered across the roofscape. The roofs are predominantly grey slate in pitched and piended profiles; the north range has a corrugated-iron roof. Brick-built ridge stacks are present throughout, though their cans are missing.

The interiors were not inspected in 1999.

To the east stands a single-storey ancillary structure of rectangular plan, constructed in heavily-pointed rubble with a pitched pantiled roof (partially missing) and stone-coped skews. This structure was also not inspected internally in 1999.

Rubble-coped rubble walls partially enclose the site, forming boundary walls around the steading.