Description

WADHURST TIDEBROOK
TQ 62 NW
22/549
Barn about 50 m north
of Chittinghurst
GV II*
Barn, probably c.1500. C20 vertical boarding over timber frame. N end
has wattle and daub infill above midrail over horizontal boarding with
raking poles supporting oversailing eaves plate. Hipped roof of corrugated
iron. 4 bays with off centre threshing floor. W elevation has C20 plank
door at W end and full height doorway to threshing bay, S of centre. Interior:
exposed timber frame with wall bracing, midrails and vertical studding.
Jointed and arch-braced wall posts to chamfered tie-beam of four-bay crown-post
roof which has raking side struts to clasped purlins. Three bays to N
of threshing floor are raised, and truss to northern most bay has additional
wall posts with morticing for floor-beam now removed, this, together with
window, of which 4 wood-mullioned lights remain, on east side suggest this
bay was possibly floored originally and may have been used as a dwelling.

Listing NGR: TQ6154229088

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556221

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