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Latitude: 52.0384 / 52°2'18"N
Longitude: -1.4511 / 1°27'4"W
OS Eastings: 437745
OS Northings: 237919
OS Grid: SP377379
Mapcode National: GBR 6RQ.5YG
Mapcode Global: VHBYX.S1Q6
Plus Code: 9C4W2GQX+9G
Entry Name: Tithe Barn
Listing Date: 8 December 1955
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1046267
English Heritage Legacy ID: 244089
Also known as: Swalcliffe Barn
ID on this website: 101046267
Location: Swalcliffe, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, OX15
County: Oxfordshire
District: Cherwell
Civil Parish: Swalcliffe
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Swalcliffe
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Tithe barn Local authority museum
SP 3737; 7/78
SWALCLIFFE,
MAIN ROAD (north side),
Tithe Barn
08/12/55
I
Tithe barn. c.1400. Regular coursed ironstone rubble. Stone ridge, stone
copings, stone slates laid to diminishing courses. Ten bays defined externally
by buttresses. Two gabled porches on east front to third and eighth bay threshing
floors. Both porches retain stone gables, 4-centred arched doorways and plank
doors. West front noted as having two small doorways; only the jambs of one
remain. INTERIOR: Upper cruck trusses; upper and lower collars; ridge and side
purlins; common rafters; wind braces to 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th bays; arch
braces to collars; ridge supported on saddle. End gables with louvered
lancets, splayed internally. Single hole air vents arranged in rows to sides
and slits to ends. Internal measurements: 128' x 22' 9"; bay length average
12' 9"; cruck trusses 11' 6" above ground; walls 3' thick; cruck feet 15" x 9".
First two bays to south have inserted loft. HISTORY: Built by William of
Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, founder of New College Oxford which he
endowed with the living. Noted as having masonry of a very high order;
architecturally the finest Oxfordshire barn. Scheduled Ancient Monument.
(V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol. X, p.238; Buildings of England : Oxfordshire, 1974,
Wood-Jones, R.B., Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region,
1963, pp.19-20).
Listing NGR: SP3774237918
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