Description

SW 73 NW STITHIANS KENNAL VALE

2/257 Barn and horse-engine house at
- approximately 100 metres west of
Kennal Farmhouse.

GV II

Barn and horse-engine house. Circa mid C19. Granite rubble with granite dressings.
Grouted scantle slate hipped roofs. Cast-iron ogee gutters.
Plan: L-shaped plan barn with short arm of the L projecting at right angles in front
of the right-hand side and a canted horse-engine house projecting behind the middle
of the long arm of the L. Right-hand part of barn is built into a bank on the right.
There are 2 pairs of opposing loading/winnowing doorways in the longer part of the
barn, a flight of stone steps behind the right-hand doorways and another flight of
stone steps behind the far right-hand side to give access to another loading doorway.
The ground floor has waggon sheds under the threshing floors and there are stables or
loose boxes and possibly originally a shippon in the right-hand part. First floor is
a granary and fodder store. Horse-engine house has opposing doorways at the sides
and slit windows in the sides of the canted end.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Unaltered elevations with original door and window openings.
Many of the openings have their original ledged doors and there are barred windows
with internal shutters. There is one 15-pane 2-light casement. Symmetrical 4 window
east front has 5 doorways to the ground floor including wide waggon doorway with
loading doorways over, towards left and right. Left-hand waggon doorway is partly
blocked.
Interior: Not inspected, except for horse-engine house which has no machinery but
original roof structure and beams for carrying former machinery.

Listing NGR: SW7438137124

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26455642

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