Building record 1253/1/3 - Barn at Dukenfield Hall

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 1139562 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Barn. Late C17. Red Flemish bond brick with slate roof. L-shaped. Courtyard front: Barn doors to right of centre with basket arch and buttresses to either side with roof projecting over. Windows and door to ground floor left now bricked up and C20 metal-framed windows inserted in new positions. 2 pitch-holes to first floor. Gabled wing to left with carriage door to south-west side with basket arch and oval pitch-hole above. Stone dressings to gable and C20 external staircase. Gable to south west part of block, also with stone dressings.

<2> Peter de Figueiredo (Independent Consultant), 2016, Dunkenfield Hall Barn, Mobberley, Cheshire: Heritage Statement, R4575 (Client Report). SCH9174.

The Dukenfield Hall barn is listed Grade II and is contemporary with the remodelling of the Grade II* Hall. The building is L-shaped on plan and consists of a threshing barn with a carriage house in the gabled wing to the left. There are various later extensions to the rear. It is built of local brick in a garden wall bond with a slate roof. It was built to complement the Hall, enclosing one side of the cobbled courtyard. It was used to store fodder for cattle and originally had no windows. The hay was ventilated by slots in the brickwork, a considerable number of which were later mutilated or blocked up. In the 18th century the upper floor was given a more polite appearance by the introduction of circular or oval windows on the principal elevations, although there is no evidence that a first floor was installed at that stage. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries many alterations were made, probably when the building ceased to be used for threshing, and was converted for sheltering livestock at ground floor level and for storage of hay and cattle feed above.