Description

BISHOPS TAWTON
SS 52 NE
10/8 Stables and Shippon with Loft
- over approximately 30 metres
south-east of Great Fisherton
Farmhouse

- II

Stables and Shippon with loft over. Late C17. Stone rubble and cob with gable
ended corrugated iron roof. L-shaped on plan. Left-hand projection has loft door
above 2-light window to right of infilled doorway to gable end. Stable door to
courtyard side with timber window to right formerly of 3 lights but mullions
removed. 2 stable doors to main range flanked by window openings with loft door
above. 2 large buttresses to rear, that at lower end has timber mullion window of
2 lights above it. Chamfered window surround to right. Single truss to centre of
gabled projection at upper end with short curved feet survives, the other two
trusses replaced. Main range has 4 trusses with short curved feet, 2 tiers of
threaded purlins, threaded ridge purlin removed; one of the trusses retains its
lap-jointed collar.

Listing NGR: SS5748527924

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26401521

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version