Description

WHITSTONE WHITSTONE HEAD
SX 29 NE
7/94 Outbuildings about 10 metres
south of Oak
GV
II

Outbuildings including barn with linhay over, 2 cartsheds. Stables with
accommodation above, large barn, bank barn, calf house. Late C19, incorporating
early C19 bank barn. Built for Squire Edward Mucklow and said to have been stud
farm. Barn brick, other late C19 buildings slatestone rubble with brick dressings
and slate roofs, bank barn partly cob. Outbuildings arranged round 2 adjoining
courtyards. Lower yard cobbled and entered through gateway in wall at north
corner. 2 storey barn, hipped at right end forms north west facing range, large
openings to linhay above. Adjoining south-east facing range comprises open-fronted
cartshed with cast iron column support and possibly tack room with canted staggered
corner. North-west facing range comprises stable block and circa early C19 bank
barn with loft above, first floor slate canopy carried on brackets. South west
facing range known as calf house. Slatestone rubble wall with rounded north corner
and gateway with piers of square section completes courtyard. Higher courtyard
comprises rear of stable and bank barn range, north-west facing brick field barn,
and second open-fronted cartshed with cast iron column support. Wall to south-west
completes higher yard with similar gate piers to lower yard. Each yard has wrought
iron gates with ornamental finials above the top and middle rails. The late C19
buildings are typical and the best of Squire Mucklow's numerous farmbuildings in
Whitstone parish, which use canted or rounded corners to eliminate damage from
wheeled vehicles, Mucklow is said to have bred carthorses as part of his estate
improvements, which included land drainage schemes. These outbuildings possibly
carthorse stud Farm.

Listing NGR: SX2644298510

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26430942

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover