Building record 643/1/3 - Farm Building ten metres south of Parkmoss Farmhouse

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 57465 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farm building comprising barn, cartshed etc, probably mid eighteenth century altered by the Arley Estate late nineteenth century. English garden wall bond brown brickwork; grey slate roof, left portion graded. Barn has central threshing porch with full-height doorless opening flanked by brick piers carrying chamfered oak lintel; stone-flag threshing floor. Small inserted casement left of porch; four-centred rebated archway and small inserted casement right of porch; four diamond-shaped vents to left; two oval stone-lined pitching-eyes. Recessed right-wing, probably mid nineteenth century, has cart doorway with reused oak lintel, boarded door in four-centred arch and inserted casement; boarded loading door in rebated opening with cambered cill and head. Two rows of three and one row of two diamond-shaped vents in left gable-end. Interior: Divided door in left cross-wall of threshing porch; round-arched openings to granaries; oak purlins. The building forms left side of cobbled forecourt to Parkmoss farmhouse q.v. Included for group value.