Summary
This is a two storeyed building positioned at the entrace of the yard, facing E and is known as the coach house, more likely, however, to have been a gig/trap house, with stable. It is of a symmetrical design, slightly more grand thatn the other farm buildings, and was built by a firm calley Thackerays.
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Monument Types
- TRAP HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Description
Facing the coach house, to the left (S) is a door built back from the stable which opens into the passage way which leads around the side and back of the building to another door. The passage is built inot the slope of the field behind, and has since been blocked off in two by a wall. This is a lean-to structre with common rafters resting on the stable wall, at the back, the roof has been incorporated into the main roof shape, and was built in order to stop the damp reaching the two rooms infront.
The stable to the left has since been turned into a bull house, and the trap house was used for cattle, and pigs to the left of the door.
External stone steps with slate treads lead up to the first floor where food stuff was stored. There are trap doors in each room to the loft above, and a chain and pulley system above the bull house, used to lift feed sacks up, and in the trap house, pigs wre butchered through that trap door.
Mr Bowes has the accound stubbs, presumably for the coach house which would mean it was ubilt in 1887, not 1898 as he had said, perhaps they are from the 1888 barn, building *2.
Dec 13 1887 Mr. Mrs Bell, Coniston Slate œ11.17.16
Now 18 1887 Mr. Mrs Gradwells' Exoes, Hindfsood Saw Mills œ16.15.9
WALLS - Exposed, mortared, squared cobbles of sandstone and volcanic stone, coursed, slates between the cobble layers, quoins, cast iron guttering. Circular ventilation hole at each gable end.
ROOF - Gabled, slate laid in diminishing courses, more regular than with other buildings. Sandstone ridge cap, plain close verge with slate thins covering the purlins at the gables. 4 purlins, machine sawn, 1 to the E of the ridge purlin, 2 to the W, to incorporate the passage running behing the building. Rafters resting on the purlins, torched between teh rafters. THe ridge purlin has 5/ carved into it near the entrance door.
The left hand room of the coach house was once the stable and now houses the bull. The right hand room once kept the trap and now houses four cows between two wooden kickboards which are attached to the back wall. To the left of the door, the remaining space was used to house a pig.
Each room has a small drainage hole to the left of the doors which leads to a surface drain outside, and is then carried under ground, again to the slurry pit.
Large external stone steps with slate treads and a flimsy metal hand rail lead up to the first floor. This floor was used for feed storage, later as a tack room and for storage.
FIRST FLOOR
Inside door to the left (W) of the door there is a niche in the wall. Walls - lime plaster with a gap between the wall top and roof slope (above the stable, however, the walls are slightly higher sothat they reach the roof). Floor - pitch pine boards.
Trap door / feeding hatch to the stabel below has a chain pulley above to load up grain sacks. There is a turnip cutter (possibly to be sold by the Atkinsons).
(NT VBS Surveyor; 1995)
References
- --- SZI6680 - Unpublished document: National Trust Vernacular Buildings Surveyor. 1986. Duddon - Venacular Buildings Survey.
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