Description

In the entry for:
NY 86 NE WARDEN FOURSTONES

6/120 Farmbuildings to north
of Fourstones Farmhouse
GV
II

The item shall be amended to read:

NY 86 NE FOURSTONES

6/120 Farmbuildings to north-
west of East Fourstones
GV Farmhouse

II

The description shall be amended to read:

Byres, barn, gingang, engine-house and feedstores. Early C19. Squared stone with
ashlar dressings. Roofs of stone slates and Welsh slates; brick chimney. E-plan
facing south and central north wing. Original 2-storey, U-shaped range has taller
central threshing barn at right-angles, with hipped roof facing front. This and the
side wings have various boarded single and double doors and part-slatted windows
under stone lintels; pattern of slit vents. Later one-storey central section, forming
E, has rebated elliptical-arched central cart entrance; door and window at sides. All
roofs hipped. Attached to east side of threshing barn to rear a round-ended, solid
gingang with double doors, 2 windows and round-hipped roof. Behind this an engine
house with tall, square stone-corniced chimney on stone base. Interior of threshing
barn shows chamfered king-post roof trusses. A pleasing example of a planned mixed
farm of the period. The covered areas between the wings of the E, the asbestos-roofed
shed on the west side and the haybarn at the north-west corner are not included.

In the entry for:

NY 86 NE WARDEN FOURSTONES

6/120 Farmbuildings to north-
west of East Fourstones
GV Farmhouse

II

The description shall be amended to read:

Byres, barn, gingang, engine-house and feedstores. Early C19. Squared stone with
ashlar dressings. Roffs of stone slates and Welsh slates; brickchminey. U-plan
around farmyard facing south, and central north wing. 2 storeys. Taller central
threshing barn at right-angles, with hipped roof facing front This and the side
wings have various boarded singe and douible doors, and part-slatted windows, under
stone lintels; pattern of slit vents. All roofs hipped. Attached to east side of
threshing barn, to rear, a round-ended solid gingang with double doors, 2 windows
and round-hipped roof. Behind this an engine house with tall, square stone-corniced
chimney on stone base. Interior of barn shows chamfered king-post roof trusses. A
pleasing example of a planned mixed farm of the period.

The one-storey central front addition, the covered areas to either side of it, the
asbestos-roofed shed on the west side and the haybarn at the north-west corner are
not of special interest.

The list was previously amended in respectof this entry on 18 June 1986.

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NY 86 NE WARDEN FOURSTONES

6/120 Farmbuildings to north of
Fourstones Farmhouse

GV II

Farmbuildings. Early C19, squared stone with ashlar dressings, hipped slate roofs.
E-plan layout facing south. Central section a taller threshing barn, with circular
gingang attached to east side and later C19 engine house built into north angle,
with square chimney, upper part brick. Original buildings show segmental-arched
openings and square-headed windows, some later alteration and infill between ranges.

A good example of a model farm layout of the early C19.

Listing NGR: NY8926668007

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26590467

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