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

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)