Greeting’s….Folks….
Two descriptions of “ Barkby Grange Farm. “ :~
Farm Building at Barkby Grange, Beeby Road - Grade II
Range of farm buildings, later C19. Brick with Welsh slate roof.
The buildings form 2 sides of a yard with a further range at right angles containing taller barn with loft above. This range has building to left with coped gable, and round arched door between 2 steeply arched windows.
To its right, the taller building has central steeply arched door beneath coped gable containing an upper entry approached by external staircase.
String course and paired upper windows with yellow brick arched heads. Yellow brick dentilled eaves cornice.
Adjoining this building is the gable end of the courtyard range: stable and barn, central door and outer windows to stable, double doors with outer diamond vents to barn.
At right angles to this, a single storey range, buttressed and with various square headed lights beneath the eaves, renewed, to the left, and to the right, a segmentally arched opening and tiny triangular vents. Blue and yellow brick bands. Nogged eaves cornice.
Barkby Grange Farmhouse, Beeby Road - Grade II*
Farmhouse, 1855. Polychrome brickwork with stone dressings, and Welsh slate roof.
Flamboyant picturesque Gothic style, 2 storeyed, square in plan with central light well, each facade different. Entrance front of 2 bays, with central doorway beneath gabled full height porch, corbelled out at 1st floor level. The doorway is a 4 centred arch in chamfered and carved architrave.
Single 2-light store mullioned window with hoodmould above and date stone in the apex.
Left hand bay has 3 mullioned lights with blue and yellow brick relieving arch over, and polychrome decoration in the tympanum it forms.
2 mullioned lancets in the right hand bay, 2 light windows above, and a gable over the left hand bay with patterning in the apex. West elevation has 2 coped gables with a tiny gablet between them, each containing an expressed chimney stack. 2 light windows in centre, single lights in left hand gable.
East elevation is of 3 bays with a tall coped gable to left, and a lower one to the right. In the left hand gable a 3 light stone mullioned window to ground floor, 2 lights above, with polychrome patterning in gable apex.
Central bay also has a mullioned window to each floor, as does right hand gable.
Yellow brick quoins on angles, blue and yellow brick bands.
Stone coped gables, ornate tall brick stacks
I think if your man owned this property then it would have had “ Land owner “ or words to that effect…..on the Census return ...
Lord Lansborough was the principle land owner for that area…..
MIKE.
