Description

WITHERIDGE HOLE HILL
SS 81 NW
5/84 Bank barn to west of
- Hole Farmhouse
GV II
Hay barn with threshing floor, integral stalls set below, engine house at the rear.
Mid C19. Coursed rubble, slate roof to coped verges in 2 sections on front, engine
house with a segmental slate roof at the rear.
Plan: bank barn, long rectangular hay barn on first floor inset into the side of a
hill, large central threshing floor, (now removed) with large doorways opposite to
each other. On the ground floor cattle shelters with openings on the downhill side;
to right of front a 2-storeyed stable of lower height, single storeyed engine house
at the rear of the left end.
Exterior: 2 storeys, front with 2 large full-height 2-stage buttresses, projecting
pentice over, these flank a central door opening on the first floor, plank doors.
Further secondary buttresses to each side. On the ground floor 4-segmental headed
openings to the cattle shelters. Stable to right with a door opening. At the rear
the polygonal engine house.
Interior with early C19 strutted King-post roof. Engine house to the rear with
machinery removed.

Listing NGR: SS8141615286

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26401088

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)