Description

CHRISTOW
SX 88 SW
5/141 Shippon about 400
metres west south
west of Clampitt
House.
II
Shippon. Probably C16 or C17. Granite rubble. Gable-ended roof clad in
corrugated iron sheets. Plan: Rectangular on plan with doorway at centre
of west front. Exterior: Formerly 2 storeys. Almost symmetrical west
front with central doorway with chamfered wooden frame and unchamfered
wooden lintel. To left and right small windows with wooden lintels. Two
cruck posts are exposed on the front wall. Left doorway in
south gable end. Interior: half doorway removed but 2 cross-beams
remain , one roughly chamfered. 3-bay roof with 2 cruck trusses intact,
the north a raised cruck truss, its tenoned collar removed; the south is
a side-pegged jointed cruck truss with a tenoned collar. The purlins
and common rafters are missing.

Listing NGR: SX8104984500

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26390011

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990