Description

MARSHFIELD C.P.
ST 77 SE
10/177
Pair of Barns at right angles
and adjoining Oldfield
G.V. Farmhouse

II

Pair of barns. C17 and late C18/early C19, possibly incorporating fragments of
an earlier building. Rubble; Cotswold stone slate roofs. South barn (nearest
the house) is lower and has a C19 slate roof lean-to at the front: opposed square
headed entries, lean-to porch with catslide roof to west; 6 bays, tie and collar
beam trusses, one to the north of the west entry has an angled foot (as an upper
cruck), and one straight windbrace on west side. Adjoining is the north barn:
traditional Cotswold plan with 2 opposed porches with square headed entries,
gabled to the east and lean-to at west; freestone dressings and quoins, coped
raised verges and saddle stones; blocked slit windows; east porch had room at
first floor and retains a pigeon loft above that, a timber and slate lantern on
the roof is the pigeon entry.

Listing NGR: ST7582873850

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26408716

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)