Description

DARTINGTON SX76SE Barn Immediately North 1/95 of Higher Allerton

GV II

Barn. C17 altered in circa early Cl9. Local limestone rubble and cob upper part of walls. Corrugated asbestos sheet roof with gabled ends. The roof continues down over a canopy across the front. Bitumenized slurried slate roof over the lean-to. Plan: Rectangular plan barn with a loading door at the right hand gable end. The floor seems to have been inserted later to form a bank barn. the barn and granary above have access from a later rear doorway. On the ground floor a cowhouse or roothouse and probably a cartshed and a later lean-to, probably a cleaving shed on the front and at the left end. the barn adjoins the stables (qv) which is situated to the right. Exterior: Front: Doorway to the right with keeping hole recess in one jamb; cart-shed doorway to right of centre and external stone stairs to left under the canopy which is formed as a deep eaves by the main roof continuing down; under the stairs a dog shelter. Lean-to cleaving shed to the left of front and around the left end; it was originally an open- fronted cart shed. At the back a wide barn doorway to right of centre with chamfered frame, its lintel replaced and old plank doors. A shoot possibly to a root house at ground level on the right. Roof: 7-bay roof with 6 trusses; straight principal rafters with morticed ridge, dovetail lap jointed cranked collars, threaded diagonal ridge-piece and threaded purlins. The whole roof entirely intact except for the common rafters which have been replaced. The feet of the principals are dovetail lap-jointed into wall posts of uncertain length because they are concealed in the walls, but where the rear doorway has been widened the dovetail joint is exposed.

Listing NGR: SX7637061630

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