Listed Building record MDR5213 - Barn Southwest of Unthank Farm Farmhouse, Unthank Lane, Holmesfield

Barn southwest of Unthank Farm farmhouse, Unthank Lane, Holmesfield, a late 16th century cruck frame barn. Barn at Unthank Farm, with 4 cruck frames with tie beams, collars and yokes, set on stone plinths. (1-2) 'A barn at Unthank Hall has 4 or 5 sets of crucks and an external threshing floor.' (3) 'This is a long stone threshing barn with a stone-flagged roof supported on five massive cruck trusses each with yoke, collar and tie beam. The barn is still in everyday agricultural use. Cruck apex tpe L1. Eight samples were taken from timbers in the barn in order to carry out tree ring analysis. This provided a felling date of 1589/90.' (4, 5) From the National Heritage List for England: 'PARISH OF HOLMESFIELD UNTHANK LANE SK 37 NW 5/168 31.1.67 Outbuilding to the south-west of Unthank Hall (formerly listed as Barns and Outbuildings to Unthank Hall GV II* Farm outbuilding, formerly threshing barn. Early C17, with later additions. Thinly bedded coal measures sandstone on a rough plinth of larger stones, with plain gables and a stone slate roof covering. Single storey with overlofts, six bays, that to the north end an addition. West elevation. Off-centre full height doorway with quoined surround, and plain planked harr-doors. To the north, two wide rectangular openings with massive chamfered cills, now infilled with vertically set flagstones. Two doorways, one with boarded door with a rectangular light beneath a plain stone lintel, the other beneath a wooden lintel. Interior. Five massive cruck trusses with tie and collar beams, and a yoke which carries a ridge purlin. Single purlins, with scarf joints notched into the backs of the cruck blades. Straight wind braces to one side of each truss. On the east side of the building, the padstones on which the trusses rest project from the wall base. Listing NGR: SK3067876042.' (6)