Listing Text

TL 31 NE STANDON BARWICK FORD
(east side)

4/11 Barn and cowhouse and
shelter shed adjoining
at Biggins Farm
(50m to W of house)

II

Barn and adjoining cowhouse and shelter-shed. C17 barn, C18
cowhouse, late C18/early C19 shelter shed. Timber-frames,
weatherboarded on brick sills. Steep slate roof to barn, lower
pitched slate roof to sheltershed, and steep red tile roof to
cowshed. A tall 5-bay barn lying N-S with closed gabled porch in
middle of W side and double doors opposite. Jowled posts with
straight braces to tie beams, staggered mid-height rails anal
straight tension braces in the walls. Hybrid roof structure with
an upper clasped-purlin but a butt jointed lower purlin,
staggered in line. Trusses have a high collar and diagonal
struts across the lower angles. Face-halved bladed scarf in wall
plate. Lower 5-bay cowhouse in line to S has unjowled posts,
curved braces to tie beams and clasped-purlin roof with angled
queen-strut trusses. Large door on E in 2nd bay from S. Low 4-
bay shelter shed extending E from S part of barn, with open front
to yard on S. Roof hipped at E. Clasped-purlin roof with queen-
strut trusses and curved braces to tie beams and to the wall
plate from the posts along the open front. E bay enclosed with
weatherboarding with a stable type door. A picturesque group of
historic farm buildings.

Listing NGR: TL3966619026