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It was built as a hay barn in 1888 and also used for shearing sheep when wet, now used to keep hay and sheep. Inside a separate room was built as a hen house, and occasionally pigs were kept in there.

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Standing behind building *1, enclosing the privy and sheep pen into a courtyard is this tree bay hay barn built in 1888.

Attached to the barn is a lean-to garage built after WWII as an implement shed to store tractors.

Where the garage / implement shed is, there used to be a three cornered yard with a hog hole in the wall which was where the pigs were kept.

WALLS - Gathered stone, maily volcanic cobbles, some sandstone and slate, mortared, random uncoursed, larger stones and boulders as quoins; the W gable has some large horizontal sandstone quoins. Limewashed inside, exposed outside. Cast iron gutters.

ROOF - Gabled, slate laid in diminishing courses, sandstone ridge. Round ventilation holes in both gable apexs. Plain close verge with purlins cappe din thin slates. 2 tie beams restin gon wall top, principal rafter roof. 5 purlins running through the tie beam, including ridge purlin. Rafters resting on purlins, all machine sawn pitch pine, torched between rafters.

DOORS - 1) large double doors made of wooden slats with a slate lintel above with 1888 carved into it. 2) 5 planks, 3 battens, wooden lift latch. Above the door are 2 lintels with a gap between, possibly for strength, or for ventilation. 3) Home made plank door, pitch pine, 4 planks, metal bolt.

WINDOWS - 1) 3 x 3 panes, fixed, slate lintel and cill. 2) a blocked hole, it was used as an opening for the hens.

FLOOR - The entrance is cobbled, difficult to tell for the rest of the barn because of deep litter.

There is a niche to the left of the double doors, and a niche either side of door 2). The hen house, a later addition, has two outer walls, mortared, exposed, with ore sandstone than the barn walls, and also volcanic stone and slate. There is a niche in the wall with a wooden cilla nd lintel, nest to door 3). Inside the walls are plastered and white washed. The ceiling is of 7 trucks (with bark) soft wood, lime washed, with plaks laid across.

GARAGE

WALLS - 2 walls, exposed stone, mortared, as with barn.

ROOF - Lean-to, iron sheet, metal beam.

DOOR - SLiding iron doors spanning the width of the building.

WINDOW - 2 panes, fixed, outside is a stone lintel and cill and 2 stone throughs on either side, inside there is a large concrete lintel.

FLOOR - concrete.

Ont he S side a dry stone wall sticks out at 90 degrees from the garage, on is rests 2 RSJ's upon which sits a diesel tank with pumps. There is a stone wall continuing from the S wall of garage with slate steps on to it, it curves round to join part of the track.

(NT VBS Surveyor; 1995)

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