Description

MELKRIDGE A 69 (T)
NY 76 SW
(North side, off)
High Town
16/55 Threshing barn
and additions
north of High Town House
GV II

Farmbuildings. Early C19 threshing barn with later C19 additions. Dressed
stone barn with corrugated-asbestos roof; coursed rubble additions with slate
roofs. Linked T-plan: threshing barn with extension on right return; byre at
right-angles, with lean-to barn on rear. 2-storey, 5-bay threshing barn:
central opposed elliptical archways with paired boarded doors; 2 rows of
breathers; blind pointed archway on left return. 2-storey, 2-bay extension
on right return: C20 garage openings with small boarded window above; roof
hipped at right. 2-storey, 3-bay byre, on bay to right of barn archway, has
central Dutch door with boarded loft opening above in surrounds with alternating
jambs. Lower 2-storey lean-to barn on rear of byre. Single-storey garage on
gable end of byre is not of special interest. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NY7366464092

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26297315

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