Description

PARISH OF UNSTONE ASH LANE
SK 37 NE
6/180 (South Side)
The Old Barns (formerly
listed as Cowhouse to
2.12.81 south and adjacent to
Ash Lane Farmhouse
and outbuilding to
south-east of Ash Lane
Farmhouse, south of
Cowhouse)
GV II
House, formerly two farm outbuildings. Late C16 and late C17,
converted 1984. Coursed rubble coal measures sandstone with
plain dressings, quoins, Welsh slated roofs with stone slate
eaves, C20 metal flues. L-plan, formerly two separate buildings
now linked by C20 extension. South range. Two storeys, three
bays with central doorway beneath plain timber lintel, and
enlarged ventilation slits to either side of the doorway, now a
glazed door. Inserted interior partitions do not obscure
exposed late C17 queen strut tie beam trusses with straight
windbraces to one side of each truss, which support double
purlins and a ridge purlin. Inserted C20 openings to south
gable end. North range runs at right angles to main range.
Late C16, single storey, three bays, with two complete cruck
trusses, and the remains of a third in the west gable wall. The
cruck trusses stand on projecting padstones on the south side;
the north side wall is built into an earth bank. The trusses
have tie beams and yokes, and some windbraces. Single purlin
and ridge purlin. Three doorways to south wall, with plain
lintels, one now blocked. C20 link with timber arcade to front.

Listing NGR: SK3978877742

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26403303

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets