Workshop Range at Abbey Farm

To the N is a 2-storeyed, 3-window range, possibly originally a small stable and cartshed: 2 open bays with a central pier carrying timber lintels over the ground floor to the right, and a separate doorway with brick arched head to the left, and external staircase to upper door which is flanked by loft windows. The staircase is a later addition which cuts a voussoir headed window. The southern building may be somewhat earlier: it is also 2-storeyed and a 3-window range, with 2 wide doorways and a single window under a common lintel. Advanced bay to right forms an outshut, and has single window with cambered stone head. Part of tomb slab with cross-circle motif, of early C14 date, is incorporated into the wall over the doorway. Western elevation to rear of this range represents some of the original fabric of an abbey building. The construction of the southern section of the wall (which continues beyond the line of the present buildings) is uncoursed rubble and markedly different from other buildings on the site, including the extension of this building to the N; in addition, the regular spacing and alignment of the 4 pointed-arched windows in the southern section suggests that they may be in situ. In the northern section, a further similar window is on a different alignment and is probably re-sited. Below it, a blocked pointed arched doorway.