The Old Barn

The Coach House, The Clocktower and The Old Barn.

L-shaped former service range of mainly 2 storeys; of red brick construction with mostly sandstone dressings and economical slating to roofs, with dentilated eaves. The main, primary block faces NE and is of 2 storeys and 11 bays. It consists of a 5-bay coach house section to the L (now The Coach House) and a 5-bay stable (?) section to the R (now the Clocktower) with the 3-storey clocktower itself occupying the central bay. Square windows to squat first floor of both sections, with plain sandstone surrounds; modern casements throughout. The Coach House has 4 wide, depressed-arched carriage openings with brown brick voussoirs and dividing piers and limestone keystones and imposts; modern boarded doors. To the far L is a standard entrance with flat limestone lintel and boarded door. The Clocktower has a fine (reused) Tudor-arched Jacobean entrance to the centre, with chamfered and moulded jambs and an incorporated plaque above with indistinct Latin inscription; surmounting moulded pediment, modern glazed doors. The ground-floor windows have similarly reused Jacobean cross-windows, the mullions and transomes removed. The clocktower itself is of three stages and is slightly advanced to front and rear and of rectangular plan; coped and kneelered gables to front and rear, with a square, wooden cupola-type bellcote to the roof. This has arched openings to each face and a swept pyramidal slate roof with surmounting iron weathervane. Depressed, chamfered-arched entrance to ground floor with recessed, ribbed and boarded door. Above this, and contained within a chamfered recess is an applied oval tablet of Coade stone, with a wheatsheaf emblem in relief; the tablet is dated 1803 and is inscribed 'Coade and Sealy, London'. 2-light transomed window to first floor with heavily-moulded label continued to the sides and returned; modern casement as before. In the gable apex is a circular clockface of slate, with moulded sandstone surround.

Adjoining the main block to the SW and at right-angles with it is the Old Barn. This is constructed as before and its eastern gable has been extended to link with that of the main block. It has a depressed-arched opening to the ground floor with modern casement windows within and further, similar flanking windows. Above is a large, glazed sandstone oculus and above that is an inset, carved stone date-plaque, 1863. Modern single-storey lean-to and catslide additions to the long NW side, with modern catslide dormers to the roof. Adjoining to the SW is a large, squat mid-C19 brick chimney; of 2 stages with plain cornice band. The Old Barn is partly screened by a low modern brick wall.

The interior was not available for inspection at the time of survey (7/97).