Description

SK29NW BRADFIELD OAKS LANE (north side), Midhopestones

3/78 Barn and cowhouse on east side of 19/12/75 farmyard at The Oaks Farm (formerly listed as Barn on east side of Farmyard GV at Oaks Farm)

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Barn and cowhouse. C17 or C18 cowhouse, early C19 barn attached. Some internal timber framing to cowhouse. Gritstone, the earlier work sparsely mortared, the C19 work coursed, squared. Stone slate roofs. Tall threshing barn to left built onto low cowhouse with hayloft. Cowhouse has two entrances with heavy gritstone surrounds, one jamb of left-hand doorway collapsed. Square pitching hole to right return. Barn has large opposed central doorways, both with neat quoin reveals and wood lintels. Two small doorways to left, one partially infilled, some square vents. Pigeon ledge with dressed opening to left return. Cowhouse interior: cruck pair raised high on rough columns. Wall tie, single purlin, diagonal-set ridge in crossed apex. Halvings for windbraces and purlin tie. Included partly for group value.

Listing NGR: SK2396699327

External Links

• Wikidata Q26575245

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