Building record 2199/1 - Cornbarn, Shippon and Pigcote at Lower House Farm

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58052 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Corn barn, shippon and pig cote: barn dated 1697 but remainder added late eighteenth century. Coursed squared buff sandstone rubble. Kerridge stone-slate roof and stone ridge. Corn barn has three-bay road front with five-board door with iron strap hinges under lintel carved ML (for Lowe) 1697, flanked by square pitch-holes. West front has a partial outshut and cart entrance under a wooden lintel. Interior: two roof trusses of tie beam, queen posts and collar, and overlapping purlins and ridge. Shippon forms north range of courtyard. West gable has three doors with ashlar surrounds, the central one to feeding passage and shippons to either side. Above are two loading bays and south side has windows below, square pitch-holes above. Joined by steps and walls to two-entrance pigcote with seed store above.
Cottage at north-east corner of this group is not included in the item.