Home Farm Barns

Home Farm Barns comprise a group of agricultural buildings arranged around a yard. The west range, dating to the 18th century, serves as a livestock shed with a storage loft. It’s constructed of axe-dressed sandstone masonry with a slate roof and tile ridge. The main section of this range, consisting of eight structural bays, retains its original queen-post trusses. The front of the range has four altered loft windows grouped to the left, and below them an altered window with an opening beneath, a wide entrance with a rough timber lintel, and an altered square window. The north end is a bull-pen of four bays with modern trusses, its loft floor having been removed. The entrance and a window under a shared lintel are set within an old brick-arched cartshed opening, the arch serving as a relieving arch. Two square loft hatches are located at the rear of this range.

The south range, also of the 18th century, has a higher roof apex and incorporates a livestock shed with loft near the junction with the earlier range, a barn, and an additional storage building acting as an annex to the barn and featuring a slightly lower roof. It’s built with similar materials and roofing. The livestock shed, of three bays with queen-post trusses, has its loft floor removed and a central wide entrance facing the yard, with two square windows above and two below. The barn, centrally located on the range, features opposed full-height openings with brick segmental arches, the doors now missing. To the west of the barn, on the yard side, are two openings with segmental heads and honeycomb brick infill. The storage building, at the east end, is partially obscured by later roadside sheds, but behind these are two segmental-headed openings, one above the other, the upper one with honeycomb brickwork infill. Behind this range are recent sheds concealing some irregular openings and the south great door of the barn. The extension to the barn includes a lean-to stone shed, wide doorways one above the other, and a reduced cartshed opening beneath a brick relieving arch. The gable end facing the road has four slit ventilators, while the opposite end is hipped where the roof rises above that of the earlier range.

The east range, built of rubble walls with brick dressings and modern corrugated metal roofs, completes a U-shaped layout. It's a long, single-storey cow house backing onto Penrice Road, with a short return adjoining the yard entrance on the main road. The short return has a hipped end and a broad segmented arch facing the yard entry. The range includes three 3-light metal windows and one sliding door.