Listed Building: Farm buildings at Lower Lock Farm (1189659)

Range of farm buildings, including barn. C.1840. Coursed squared limestone, hipped slate roofs. U plan. Principal range contains central 3-bay barn with opposed double-leaf doors with wood lintels, that to front with elliptical-arched head. Barn is flanked by single-storey 1-bay wings, each with stable door; doors have stone lintels and keyblocks. Single-storey return wings, each with 3-bay shelter sheds open to yard on segmental-arched brick arcades. Left wing has stabling at one end. Right wing has small 2-bay cart-standing open to field to right with timber post and lintels. Barn is brick-lined. Lower Lock Farm was formerly part of the Grafton estate. The layout of the farm buildings is similar, on a lesser scale, to that of the model farm buildings built 1839-44 for the 4th Duke of Grafton, as part of a large programme of agricultural improvements.

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Sep 6 2023 8:46AM