Description

SK 23 NW PARISH OF LONGFORD LONG LANE
6/29 (North Side)
13.6.67 Barn at Longford Hall Farm
(formerly listed as 'Barn at
hall')
GV II*

Barn with stables incorporated. 1760 with C19 additions and C20 alterations. Built for
the Cokes of Longford Hall who were closely related to the Cokes of Holkham Hall. Red
brick with brick and stone dressings. Plain tile roofs with crowstepped stone coped
gables and moulded kneelers to 1760 barn, plus sawtooth eaves band, and plain stone
coped gables to early C19 addition. Six bays and single storey with advanced gabled
bays all along south elevation, two tall ones to either end with crowstepped gables
and four low early C19 ones to centre, These each have a segment headed blind arch
with a segment headed stable door within, except eastern one which has a later window.
To either side in tall bays are large segment head arches with stone keystones and
impost blocks, that to east now filled by C20 double doors and adjoining C20 windows
above, that to west with full height plank doors. Beyond to east, a similar tall bay
has segment headed door with plank door to west and inserted window to east, with plank
door in raised plain stone surround above. The equivalent western bay has an inserted
segment headed doorcase with plank door and a late C19 crowstepped gabled addition to
west. Above, a small C19 window in raised stone surround. West gable wall has an
elaborate pattern of diamond breathers and '1760 WC' picked out in breathers in the
gable. Interior has five braced king post trusses with side struts. C20 additions to
west and north.

Listing NGR: SK2149838432

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545616

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)