Description

CHAGFORD GREAT WEEKE
SX 78 NW

4/108 Cow House approximately 12m
- north of Great Weeke Farmhouse

GV II

Cow house. Probably late C18. Granite stone rubble with granite ashlar
dressings; slate roof, some of it replaced by corrugated iron.
Plan and description: cow house facing west onto the farmyard and backing onto the
lane. It comprises a series of cow stalls with haylofts over. Irregular front.
The stalls are entered through a series of doorways with low segmental heads made up
of granite ashlar voussoirs. There is a wide cart entrance a little right of centre
with 4 doorways to left of it and 3 to right. Large hayloft loading hatch to right
of cart entrance and 1 more towards each end. Most of the doorways contain C19
doors with ventilator grilles. Roof is gable-ended. The rear wall has 5 small
unglazed windows to the cow stalls and there is a ventilator slit to the hayloft
above each one.
Interior: has plain carpentry detail including a roof of A-frame trusses with
pegged and spiked lap-jointed collars.
The cow house forms part of a group with a number of other listed buildings in the
hamlet of Great Weeke.

Listing NGR: SX7143787621

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26400063

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living