Description

DIPTFORD
SX75NW Barn and piggery
4/213 immediately SW of creber
Farmhouse

GV II

Barn converted into a shippon with a piggery attached. Early C19 or
earlier and remodelled in circa mid C19. Slate rubble, rendered on the
west side. Slate roof with crow-stepped gable ends with slate coping.
Corrugated asbestos lean-to roof over piggery.
Plan: Long rectangular range, formerly a barn with a wide central doorway
converted into a shippon in circa mid C19 when the gable ends were
embattled and the piggery was added to the front right.
Exterior: The barn doorway at the centre is blocked and a smaller shippon
plank door inserted. Similar shippon door to left with ventilation slit
between and a loft door above. The ground is at higher level to right and
there is a wide doorway to the left in the right hand gable end. The lean-
to piggery added to the front right has a series of closely-spaced
doorways.
Interior: A feeding passage behind the cattle stalls. The roof has
scissor-braced nailed soft wood trusses.

Listing NGR: SX7393956016

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26402093

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Care and Repair
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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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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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)