Description

NORTH MOLTON HOLDRIDGE LANE
SS 72 NW & SS 7229-7329
13 & 18/161 Range of farmbuildings
- approximately 30 metres to north
of Holdridge Farmhouse
GV II
Range of farmbuildings, including barn with horse-engine house, cartshed and ranges
of shippons. Early to mid C19. Uncoursed stone rubble with tooled ashlar dressings,
and some red brick dressings (possibly later alterations). Welsh-slate roof, half
hipped to barn and hipped over horse-engine house and flanking wings.
Plan: U-plan range. Central threshing barn over 5-bay bay cartshed, facing south,
with octagonal horse-engine house to rear of left-hand end of barn. Lower flanking
ranges of farmbuildings, returning to front at each end, mainly shippons but with
former cartshed in end of left-hand wing. The range of buildings encloses the north
side of the large farmyard, which is bounded on the south side by Holdridge Farmhouse
and adjoining farmbuildings (q.v.). Two-storey barn over cartshed with engine house
on back to rear, and lower 2-storey flanking ranges.
Exterior: Barn has central first-floor large double boarded doors with segmental head
and flanking small segmental-headed openings with boarded doors. Ground floor
cartshed with arcade of segmental-headed arched openings divided by square brick
piers. Flanking ranges with boarded loft doorway, and narrow louvred loft windows,
and ground-floor C19 windows, and boarded doorways, all with stone segmental-arched
heads (some rebuilt in red brick). End of left-hand wing is former coach house and
has large-boarded double doors. One-storey lean-to sheds at the end of each wing.
Horse-engine house to rear of barn with formerly open canted corners (blocked by C20
concrete blockwork and doorways in sides, that to east with 6-pane rectangular rear
light and that to west blocked. Buttress to front wall.
Interior: 5-bay roof to barn with king-post trusses. Some line shafting in barn.
Horse-engine house with massive oak cross beam and 2 large beams spanning from cross
beam to rear of barn. King-post truss. No former horse-engine machinery noted at
time of survey (August 1987).

Listing NGR: SS7386728993

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26509114

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Recommended Books

• 
  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)