Description

WETHERDEN STOWMARKET ROAD
TM 06 SW

4/233
- Barn 20m west of
St. Briavels

-- II

Barn, C16 with alterations of c.1800. 5 bays. Timber-framed and
weatherboarded. Glazed pantiled roof, once thatched. A gabled porch with
boarded barn doors at centre of north side. A pair of boarded doors in
opposite wall. Side walls have heavy arch windbraced studding of C16, widely
spaced at centre 3 bays; end bays added in c.1800. Clasped purlin roof of
c.1800. Several storey posts and at least 2 tie beams are reused from a barn
of early C14 or C13; this building from jointing evidence must have had upper
passing braces above tie beam braces, and was also aisled. A number of reused
medieval rafters. St. Briavels, formerly known as Martin's Farmhouse, is not
included in this list.

Listing NGR: TM0097962550

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26284056

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]