Barn west of Forge House

Forge Farm, Eskdale, Holmrook, Holmrook, CA19 1TT

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An intact stone-built barn of early C19 date associated with a Grade II listed adjacent farmhouse and attached farm buildings. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1410961
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-2012
List Entry Name:: Barn west of Forge House
Statutory Address:: Forge Farm, Eskdale, Holmrook, Holmrook, CA19 1TT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1410961
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-2012
List Entry Name:: Barn west of Forge House
Location Description:: Barn west of Forge House
Statutory Address 1:: Forge Farm, Eskdale, Holmrook, Holmrook, CA19 1TT

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Forge Farm, Eskdale, Holmrook, Holmrook, CA19 1TT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Eskdale
National Park:: LAKE DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: SD1467799286

Summary

An intact stone-built barn of early C19 date associated with a Grade II listed adjacent farmhouse and attached farm buildings.

Reasons for Designation

The barn west of Forge House of early C19 date is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

* Intactness: the original pegged roof structure and the survival of almost all original wall fabric, pierced by original openings means that the original form of this barn is clearly illustrated; * Date: as a barn dating from before 1840 it sits firmly in the period when there is a presumption that all buildings that are generally intact will be listed; * Interior: the original functions are readable in the single undivided space, and the original pegged truss roof is retained; * Group Value: The barn has clear group value with the adjacent Grade II listed Forge House and its attached outbuildings;

History

Forge House (Grade II) is dated to 1750, and the attached barn, stable and byres are considered to date to the late C18th or early C19th. The barn west of Forge House, situated across the road from the latter, appears to have a date on one of its quoins of either 1812 or 1819 and this, along with its architectural style, suggests it was constructed in the early C19. The building is present on the 1st edition 1:10560 Ordnance Survey map of 1867 and is more clearly depicted on the larger scale 1st edition 1:2500 Ordnance Survey map of 1895. Between 1895 and the second edition of 1899 a small outshut was added to the north west side of the barn, and a small outshut was added to the south gable during the C20.

Details

MATERIALS: rough and angular local granite with large squared quoins; graduated greenslate roof.

PLAN: rectangular with small outshuts to the south gable and west elevation.

EXTERIOR: the three-bay barn is oriented north-south along a minor road, which separates it from Forge House and attached buildings (Grade II listed). The long east elevation has a central, cambered arch cart opening, with a blocked door and window opening to the right. There is a ventilation slit either side of the entrance in the upper level. The south gable has a small C20 outshut and there is an owl hole at the apex; a similar owl hole is also present in the north gable. The west elevation has the later C19 outshut attached to its north end and the remains of a blocked cart entrance. One of the quoins is crudely inscribed with some initials and the date 1812 or 1819.

INTERIOR: there are wooden stalls and feeders and the remains of cobbled floor. The original through purlin roof structure comprises two pegged trusses, one with angle struts, and rough purlins; the nature of the trusses suggest they may have been re-used from an earlier building.

Sources

Books and journals
Brunskill, RW, Traditional Buildings of Cumbria, (2002)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.