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Detached five-bay two-storey barn over byre or warehouse, built c.1890, having first entrance doorway to first floor, with gablet over, accessed by external concrete steps, and with single-storey addition to north-east gable. Pitched slate roof with timber bargeboards and brick eaves course. Rubble stone walls having tooled-stone quoins. Square-headed window openings having red brick block-and-start surrounds and stone sills. Some timber battened shutters remaining. First floor doorway has red brick jambs, granite plinth blocks, concrete lintel, and timber battened door. Square-headed pitching door to first floor of south-west gable, having red brick block-and-start surround, stone threshold, and timber battened door. Carriage opening to ground floor at west end of front elevation, having sliding corrugated-iron door. Situated on south edge of roadside. Attached single-storey building, now roofless, with rubble stone walls and evidence of pitched roof.

This finely-constructed building adds to the variety of historic structures at Essexford. Its symmetrical appearance suggests that it may have been a railway warehouse, although its form is also that of a hay barn over a cow byre. Its contrasting stone treatments, and the use of red brick to articulate openings, adds a clear formality, as does the symmetrical arrangement of openings, particularly on the first floor.