Description

BRIDESTOWE
SX 48 NE

11/56 Barn approximately 20 metres east
- south-east of Great Bidlake

GV II

Bank barn with attached engine house. Dated 1824. Local stone rubble walls with
granite dressings. Hipped slate roof.
Rectangular plan of bank barn with row of shippons on ground floor and 2 threshing
floors above reached by the higher ground level at the rear and with attached horse-
engine house behind the left-hand end.
2 storeys. Symmetrical front with 2 large doorways on the 1st floor to the
threshing floors to left and right of centre with elliptical stone arches.
Alternating with these doorways are 3 circular pitching holes the central one of
which incorporates a date-stone of 1824. There were originally 7 doorways on the
ground floor with elliptical stone arches, 4 of these however have been converted to
windows. Row of pigeon-holes below the eaves. Open-sided semi-octagonal horse-
engine house at rear of left end.

Listing NGR: SX4950988636

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26399570

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990