Description

NY 1300 ESKDALE ESKDALE GREEN

328-0/14/10002 Barn and Shippon
at north end of
farmyard at
Long Rigg Farm

G.V. II

Barn and shippon (bank barn type), forming part of model farm.
Dated 1903 on gable walls, built for Lord Ree of Gatehouse.
Granite rubble with quoins, red sandstone dressings and graduated
slate roof. Rectangular 5-bay plan with elevated.entrance at rear
to barn. Two storeys. The side to the yard has 5 segmental headed
windows at ground floor with chamfered sills and granite
voussoirs, and 3 pane glazing over wooden ventilators, a
segmental headed loading doorway above the central window, and
2 slit breathers each side. coped gables with moulded kneelers
and apex finials. Both gable walls have pentice roofs on wooden
brackets protecting 2 shippon doorways next to the corners, the
left also has a central feeding passage doorway, and both have
datestones lettered "JHR/AD/1903". The rear has an earthen ramp
up to a central gabled porch which has a wagon doorway protected
by oversailing verges and an additional pentice canopy. Interior:
shippon contains complete set of original double stalls for 32
cows in 2 rows facing a central feeding passage furnished with
piped drinking bowls and granite feeding boxes, barn has trap
door in centre of floor (over feeding passage in shippon), and
4 kingpost roof trusses. A fine example of its type, together
with the stable block (q.v.), pigsties (q.v.), multi-functional
range (q.v.), manure shed (q.v.) and boundary wall (q.v.) forming
a complete model farm.

Listing NGR: NY1360800159

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26604980

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)