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GILLING WITH HARTFORTH WATERS LANE
NZ 10 NE AND SEDBURY (south side)
6/148 Range of agricultural
buildings approximately 5
metres north of Crabtree
House
GV II
Barn with engine house attached to west side and with added L-shaped range
to north, with later cart-shed further to north. Barn probably of C18 date,
with late C19 additions. Rubble, Welsh slate, pantile and C20 clay
interlocking tile roofs. 1 and 2 storeys. Barn: Welsh slate roof; 2
storeys, 4 bays; quoins; the openings with deep lintels. To south of engine
house, board door on ground floor, 2 first-floor openings, 1 blocked, the
other shuttered. To north of engine house, board door and 2 slit vents to
its left, 1 shuttered first-floor opening. Shaped keelers, ashlar copings.
Engine house: C19; single storey, projecting at right angles, pantile roof
with stone slates at eaves, ashlar coping to outer side. On north side, 2
large openings, now blocked, and in centre, square-plan chimney,
approximately 15 metres high, in hard brick, with rounded corners, with
square base with small round-arched opening on north side, and tapering
stack with ashlar sandstone torus moulding. Attached to north end of barn,
L-shaped 2-storey range of c1881, calf boxes on ground floor, with granary
above, in snecked stone with quoins, and with quoined openings with rounded
arrises; C20 clay interlocking tile roof. On ground floor, 3 shuttered
openings and board sliding door; on first floor, 3 shuttered openings and
pitching door. Hipped roof to left. North return: 2 shuttered ground-floor
openings, 3 shuttered first-floor openings; ashlar coping to left.
Projecting from ground floor right, single-storey cart-shed with 4
segmental-arched openings, the fourth rebated for doors and separated
internally from the others; pantile roof. The use of machinery powered by
stationary steam engines in North Yorkshire is fairly unusual. This type of
engine house and chimney is more commonly found in County Durham and
Northumberland, but is rare to the south of that region.
Listing NGR: NZ1677005330
