Description

Westmill village
TL 3627 WESTMILL ASPENDEN ROAD
(east side)
8/2
Gaylors Barn
(40m to S of Old Gaylors)
-

GV II

Barn. Early C18, roof early C19. Timber frame weatherboarded on
low red brick sill. Low pitched slate roof. An unusually wide-
span (approximately 9m) tall unaisled barn of 7 bays with double-
doorways in the 3rd and 6th bays from W. Faces N into farmyard.
5 reused jowled posts, mid-height rails tennoned in line, and
straight tension bracing. Deep curved braces to tie beams. The
early C19 roof structure has a single purlin in each slope
supported on short inclined queen-struts and further braced by
straight braces from the tie-beam in the same plane as the
struts. Small curved collar between principals.

Listing NGR: TL3679227133

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26396252

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  For the Record
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)