Description

COTHERSTONE LARTINGTON LANE NZ 01 NW (North side,off) 32/52 Linked Farmbuildings, 20 metres north of Pecknell Farmhouse GV II Linked farmbuildings. Late C18 barn; early-mid C19 range of loose-boxes and a pigsty; 2 haybarns (west one dated 1866); cart shed, with granary over, dated 1905. Sandstone walls: coursed rubble barn, loose-boxes and pigsty; rubble haybarns with dressed quoins; dressed stone cart shed. Haybarns have Welsh slate roofs; other buildings have stone-flagged roofs except for part of the loose-box range which has a corrugated-iron roof. U-plan main barn with haybarns attached to outer returns and cart shed attached to centre of rear. Loose-boxes and pigsty, with walled yard, attached to south return of eastern haybarn.

2-storey, 9-bay, U-plan barn with 2-bay returns. Symmetrical front facing yard has flush quoins, 2 segmental-arched openings and breathers.Openings altered in mid C19: 9-pane fixed light to left of centre; inner returns have first-floor boarded openings and hit-and-miss ventilators. Low-pitched hipped roof. Tall 3-bay haybarns have rectangular-plan piers. Central outer pier of western barn has clay pipes arranged to show date 1866. Low-pitched roof with central louvred ventilator.

3-bay cart shed with granary over. 3 segmental-arched openings, with flush voussoirs; 2 openings and a boarded door above. 1905 datestone in northern spandrel. Hipped roof.

Single-storey 4-bay north range of loose-boxes has 2 blocked, segmental-arched openings with inserted boarded doors. Lower 2-bay south range has an elliptical archway and blind quatrefoil in south gable.

Pigsty has low pent roof; feeding chute into walled yard.

Late C20 barn, attached to east front of cart shed, is not of special interest. Altered shelter sheds, attached at right-angles to south returns of main barn, and L-plan single-storey range, attached to south return of western haybarn, have replaced corrugated-iron roofs and are not of special interest.

Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ0292017766

External Links

• Wikidata Q26453665

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