Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Browfoot Barn | |
| locality:- | Darfield House | |
| parish |
Whitwell and Selside
parish, once in Westmorland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| barn | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD54459797 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD59
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| References |
Listed Buildings 2010
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| 1Km square | SD5497 | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| BROWFOOT BARN TO REAR OF DARFIELD HOUSE / / / WHITWELL AND SELSIDE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75772 / SD5445397973 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Bank barn. Probably early to mid C18, slightly altered. Uncoursed mixed random rubble with quoins, graduated slate Cumberland roof. L-plan: 3 bays and integral 2-bay rear wing to 3rd bay. Two storeys, with shippon and loose box under barn. The south front, approached by a natural slope, has a porch (probably added or rebuilt in C19) with short cheeks and monopitched roof projecting a segmental-arched wagon doorway with rubble voussoirs in front of cambered timber lintel which is chamfered and has sockets for former harr-hung doors (now missing). The east side has 3 doorways to the undercroft shippon, the 1st with a flat arched head, the 2nd rebuilt with a concrete lintel, both these with C19 board doors, and the 3rd segmental-headed with rubble voussoirs and an original harr-hung batten-and-board door opening outwards; and beyond these, the loose box which has a stable door flanked by small windows, all segment headed with rubble voussoirs, the right hand window with 2-pane glazing over a wooden ventilator but the left window now lacking glazing. Over all these openings is a continuous slate drip-band (broken over the rebuilt doorway to the shippon), and the wall above has some projected coursing on 3 levels ( a characteristic of this area) Former farmhouse adjoins left end). | ||
| INTERIOR:the shippon has original axial stalls for 16 cattle in 2 rows of 4 pairs flanking a feeding passage, with timber posts and beams roughly hewn but chamfered with run out stops, the feeding passage with a cobbled floor and its side walls formed of massive slate slabs(partitions and floor stalls rebuilt in concrete); the loose box has a cobbled floor; the barn has original pegged king-post and collar-rafter roof trusses, including one in the wing with carpenters mark: "111". A good example of the type, relatively early and unaltered. | ||
| placename:- | Browfoot Barn | |
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD54459797 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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