Description

SO 8532 FORTHAMPTON SCHOOL LANE
(east side)

7/71 Farmbuildings parallel to road
immediately north of Mill Hill
Farm

GV II

Stables, store, barn and horse engine house. Mid C19. Red brick
with red tile roof. L-shaped plan with octagonal horse-engine
house in angle. Roadside front; large partially blocked
segmental-headed double width opening with double doors far left, 4
segmental-headed windows arranged in square right, double width
opening with segmental head and double sliding doors right then
seven blind round-headed arches, plank door and plank pitching door
right. Octagonal horse engine house with basket-headed archways
to ground floor and hayloft with pitching windows over. Diamond-
shaped brickwork ventilation holes in gable-end and side wall of
attached barn. King post roof construction to main range and
barn. Horse engine house formerly used to house horse driven
threshing machine. Unaltered range incorporating rarely found
horse engine house which is also unusual for having a hayloft and
for lying on the farmyard side of the farm buildings.
(Forthampton Estate).

Listing NGR: SO8546032409

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26624481

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)