Engine House/granary Range and Adjoining Barn at Enholmes Farm

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PATRINGTON ENHOLMES TA 32 SW 7/35 Engine house/granary range and adjoining barn 1-10-86 at Enholmes Farm GV II

Engine house/granary and adjoining barn. 1849 for William Marshall; C20 roof covering. Orange-brown brick with orange rubbed-brick dressings. Asbestos roofs. Plan: 13-bay engine house/granary range with longer and wider ll-bay barn adjoining on north side; forms north side of farmyard. 2- storey, ll-bay main range with central 3-storey, single-bay tower to engine house and lower 2-storey, 2-bay section to east. Plinth, quoins. South side: main range has central round-headed board door with cat-hole, boarded (formerly glazed) upper panel, and radial fanlight beneath rubbed-brick arch, flanked by pairs of entrances (3 with board doors, one with window and blocking below) and 3 windows to each side, all with segmental arches. First floor: central round-headed window flanked by segmental-headed windows and 2 doors to right. 3 rows of cylindrical clay pipe breathers at mid ground-floor, first-floor and eaves level. Series of cast-iron tie bar ends for machine fittings to central section. Tower has 2-course brick second- floor band with recessed round-headed panel above containing hole for former clock, cast-iron corniced gutter and water tank around truncated octagonal chimney. Flanking roof has projecting eaves with exposed rafter ends, moulded brackets and plain barge boards to gables. Lower section set back to right has wide segmental-arched door with segmental-headed window to right; pair of similar first-floor windows, hipped roof. All openings have rubbed-brick arches; rounded jambs to doors; ashlar sills and C20 glazing to windows. West side: twin gable ends with granary range set back to right, each with central full-height round-headed opening containing recessed 2- fold sliding board doors beneath lintels (original timber lintel to barn, concrete lintel to granary), with recessed panel above containing central sliding door to first floor. Projecting timber hoist bracket to barn, rows of pipe breathers and single inserted C20 ventilator hoods to gables. East side: gable end of barn to right has similar round-headed opening with pair of sliding doors; section set back to left has single segmental-headed windows to each floor. North side of barn: round-headed waggon entrance to left of centre with sliding board door, single ground-floor window to right (remainder of section to right obscured at time of resurvey); pair of segmental-headed pitching hatches to above left, 7 similar hatches and one round-headed door to above right. Interior: 13-bay king-post roof to barn; iron drive-shafts and wheels, trap doors or hoists etc, in engine house/granary range, which formerly contained a steam-driven corn mill, chaff- and root-cutters, elevator etc and kitchen for animal feed preparation, the whole being served by a system of railways. The farm, regarded as a model farm of the period, was one of many improvements made by the Marshalls, who also built nearby Enholmes Hall, Enholmes Brick and Tile Works (qv) and a Flax Mill, now demolished. J Caird, English Agriculture in 1850-51, 1852, pp 304-7; Victoria County History: York, East Riding, vol 5, 1984, pp 102-5.

Listing NGR: TA3007621991

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Sources

Books and journals
Allison, K J, The Victoria History of the County of York: East Riding, (1984), 102-5
Caird, J, English Agriculture in 1850-51, (1852), 304-7

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