This site is entirely user-supported. See how you can help.
We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
Latitude: 51.9929 / 51°59'34"N
Longitude: -0.0747 / 0°4'28"W
OS Eastings: 532289
OS Northings: 234462
OS Grid: TL322344
Mapcode National: GBR K8D.5XM
Mapcode Global: VHGNP.N5CL
Plus Code: 9C3XXWVG+44
Entry Name: Wheat Barn
Listing Date: 27 May 1968
Last Amended: 29 January 1986
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1102609
English Heritage Legacy ID: 162418
Location: Sandon, North Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, SG9
County: Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Sandon
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Sandon
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/09/2017
TL 33 SW
7/95
SANDON
Sandon Bury
Wheat Barn
(Formerly listed as Barn about 35 metres southeast of Sandon Bury, Sandon, previously listed as Barn at Sandonbury)
27.5.68
GV
II*
Aisled barn. C14 or earlier. Altered late C17 and C19. Timber frame, rendered brick base. Weatherboarded and red brick clad. Slate roof.
Six bays with a shorter bay to end nearest road. End wall facing road is C17 brick with plinth, plat bands, two horizontal and an upper vertical oval openings. Brick coped parapet to broad gable with kneelers. Inserted windows in long sides with double doors in second bay facing yard.
Interior: large scantling to frame with slightly curved braces from unjowled arcade posts to tie beams and arcade plates. Splayed and tabled scarf joints in arcade plates. Passing braces with later reinforcing braces inserted. Above tie beams renewed with struts to principals. Originally had double aisle ties clasping wall plates, corner ties at hipped ends. One stone and brick plinth across aisle to arcade post. Studs, braces, mid rail in walling. C20 additions to right and to rear not of special interest.
(C.A. Hewett, AMS Transactions, Aisled Timber Halls and Related Buildings, 1969, p.56: Pevsner 1977: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3228934462
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
Book cover links are generated automatically from the sources. They are not necessarily always correct, as book names at Amazon may not be quite the same as those used referenced in the text.
Source title links go to a search for the specified title at Amazon. Availability of the title is dependent on current publication status. You may also want to check AbeBooks, particularly for older titles.
Other nearby listed buildings
