Description

FITTLEWORTH
TQ 02 SW BEDHAM

10/10016 Mants Barn,
including yard walls

GV II

Barn and foldyard walls. C18 with C19 outshuts and foldyard wall. Barn timber-framed with weatherboard cladding on rubblestone plinth; outshuts and yard wall of rubble brought to course with brick plinth and quoins. Plain clay tile roof, half-hipped to barn. 3-bay barn with central opposed cart-entries, that at rear lower; outshuts added to outer bays at front under cat-slide roofs; yard walls project forward from outhouses and return to form rectangular foldyard. North front: barn retains original weatherboard inside outshuts; double board doors on old frames with old hinges and latch. Right outshut has door on right; left outshut has door to right return. Yard wall approx one and a half metres high with saddleback stone coping and gateways to each side and to centre of front wall, with re-used old hinges to right-hand wooden gate. Interior of barn: the timber frame survives virtually intact and comprises: sole-plate; mid-rail; wall-plate; tall close-set studs; wall-posts with large jowels, cyma-moulded at cart-entries, and arch braces to wall-plate and tie-beams; queen-post roof trusses with principal rafters; staggered butt purlins; rafters; plank ridge. The west wall-post at the north cart-entry has a base-post with mortice for base-board. Manger inside right outshut. A good-quality traditional Cl 8 barn which with its added outshuts and foldyard reflects changing agricultural practices of the C18 and C19.

Listing NGR: TQ0194122278

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26413061

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)