Drummer Hill Farm
| Drummer Hill Farm | |
|---|---|
 The track to Drummer Hill Farm, with buildings visible in the distance | |
General information | |
| Status | Intact |
Architectural style | Vernacular agricultural |
| Location | Ingleby Greenhow, North Yorkshire, England, Drummer Hill Farm, Ingleby Greenhow, TS9 6RL |
| Coordinates | 54°27′37″N 1°07′21″W / 54.46028°N 1.12250°W |
Construction started | Early 19th century |
Completed | Mid-19th century |
| Owner | Private |
| Height | |
| Roof | Pantile with stone ridge and coping |
| Technical details | |
| Structural system | Masonry (stone and red brick) |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Barn with engine house and attached cart lodge with loft over, at north-west end of Drummer Hill Farmhouse |
| Designated | 3 December 1990 |
| Reference no. | 1294490 |
Drummer Hill Farm is a farmsteading near Ingleby Greenhow in North Yorkshire, England. A mid-19th-century horse engine house, barn, and attached cart lodge at the farm were designated a Grade II* listed building on 3 December 1990.[1]
History
The steading at Drummer Hill was built in the early 19th century.[2] The early 19th-century cart lodge initially contained an upper granary, which was later converted into a hay loft.[1] In the mid-19th century, a horse-powered engine house was added to the main barn to operate mechanical threshing machinery.[1]
Historians Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby highlighted the engine house in their 1990 survey of the region as an example of a horse wheel house retaining its original internal machinery in situ.[3] The range received Grade II* listed status later that year.[1]
In May 2023, 66-acre (27 ha) of agricultural land and modern farm buildings associated with Drummer Hill Farm were put up for sale by land agents Robin Jessop with a guide price of £850,000.[4]
Architecture
Barn and cart lodge
The farm range is built from local sandstone ashlar and coursed rubble, with red brick interior linings and pantile roofs with stone copings.[1]
The main barn has a three-bay layout, double timber barn doors under flat stone arches, ventilation slits, and upper pitch holes.[1] Attached to the north-west end is a two-storey cart lodge with open segmental arches on the ground floor and an upper loft reached by an external stone staircase.[1]
Horse engine house
A semi-circular, single-storey horse engine house (locally called a gin gang) extends from the north side of the main barn.[1] It is constructed with stone piers supporting a conical pantile roof. The open-sided structure allowed horses to walk in a circle to turn an internal vertical axle.[1]
The interior retains its 19th-century timber gear wheel and drive shaft, which passes through the barn wall to connect to the threshing mechanism inside.[1][5]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Barn with engine house and attached cart lodge with loft over, at north-west end of Drummer Hill Farmhouse". Historic England. Retrieved 3 August 2026.
- ↑ Hutton, Barbara (1985). Historic Farm Buildings in North Yorkshire. North Yorkshire County Council. pp. 42–45.
- ↑ Hartley, Marie; Ingilby, Joan (1990). Life and Tradition in the Moorlands of North-East Yorkshire. Smith Settle. ISBN 978-1870071550.
- ↑ Horne, Suzie (26 May 2023). "Northern farms and substantial land blocks set for launch". Farmers' Weekly. Retrieved 3 August 2026.
- ↑ Brunskill, R. W. (1999). Traditional Farm Buildings of Britain and Their Conservation. Yale University Press. pp. 118–121. ISBN 978-0300076097.